There was an old Star Trek (I'm talkin' the ORIGINAL Star Trek tv series) that put Kirk on a planet with an alien and they had to battle to the death to save their crew (or was it their planet?) The crew could watch on the monitors. Anyway they had everything they needed to win. It was all around them, IF they could recognize it,
Kirk made gunpowder using a bamboo sleeve and hemp for a fuse and filling it with chunks of sulfur and coal and junk. Ok ok-the details aren't important here-my POINT is the premise that they were given everything they needed to win and that it was all around them-IF they could recognize it.
I've always thought that that's what God has done with us, here on planet earth, and that we would find the cure for cancer in a weed, and probably the weed that is the most in our face and annoying. Here we are trying hard to eradicate it, and God has made it abundant so we can survive and we are too dense and rigidly in our limited thinking brain to recognize it.
Cats eat grass for instance, when they have an upset stomach.
Cudos to British researchers at the University of Nottingham's school of Veterinary Medicine for thinking outside the box-they've discovered that COCKROACHES have molecules in their brains and CNS tissue that kill bacteria like Ecoli and Staph.
NOW that is creative research! Why aren't WE doing that?
Exactly-how come cockroaches can survive anything and everything including radiation? Way to go!
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