Science and faith

I disagree with criticism of faith and the insinuation that science corrects errors of faith. Moses inquired and received instruction from Jehovah to wash the bedding of the sick that are treated and to wash the hands of the caregivers. (See Leviticus 15 [http://scriptures.lds.org/lev/15/1-5,7,13].) Not until Florence Nightingale did this practice become standard for preventing infection. Also, Joseph Smith inquired and received instruction from God about healthy eating habits and so forth (see D&C 89 [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/89]) well before any federal agency gave us the four food groups or the food pyramid. This revelation continues to be proven correct.

Men used their faith and received correct instruction dealing with real causes that science would eventually confirm, not correct.

The various things the holy books tell people to do comes from somewhere. Trichinella can be an absolute fuckery, and as such, two out of three Abrahamic religions say you shouldn't eat pork.

It's just that ancient people often didn't have any explanation other than  "God" (the theory with all the explanational power of "fuck if I know") to resort to explain why it was so.

In addition, when you follow a rule just because, instead of actually knowing why, well, you can fuck up royally the moment the circumstances deviate from those for which the rule was created. You can't adapt. In addition, as religion tends to be based upon absolute bullshit for why things are as they are, it's incapable of separating the rules which are there for a good reason from those who came from a bad case of heatstroke and rampant schizophrenia. (So a burning bush out in the the desert told you to do it?) This means that the rules, advice and suggestions from religion are worthless, as it's pure lottery as to whether they'll actually work, or something pulled out of a madman's ass three millennia ago and which will see you dead in a hurry.

As for faith, instead of religion, that's what you use if the "great doubt" keeps you awake at night (you know, the philosophical path which point out that not even "I think, therefore I am" is completely proven and logical, who's this "I" after all?). Faith and religion may be closely connected, but they are not synonyms.