What Doug Wilson says about health and science

In my experience talking about this, this is something that a good many tender-hearted Christians struggle with. They think it is endearing and sweet when a quadriplegic “marries” his high school sweetheart, regardless of the accident rendered him incapable of consummating the marriage. To be clear, I have no objection to such arrangements—I just don’t want to call it a marriage.

[Marlon Wilson: "Do you have to consummate marriage for the marriage to be valid? For example, if a spouse has a disability preventing consummation."] Yeah. Thank you, Monty, for picking up on that. I believe that an unconsummated marriage is not a marriage... I believe the definition of marriage is a covenant and a consummation. And if you have consummation without a covenant, that's simply fornication or adultery... If you have covenant, but no consummation, then what you are is just roommates or friends. And now, if there's a disability, I have no objection. Let's say there's a man who is a quadriplegic and he can't consummate the marriage and he's got a dear friend from childhood who wants to live with him and be his friend forever, I don't have any objection to that. But I just don't think it ought to be called marriage.

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I can come with you partway. If the metric were suffering, then certainly an [abortifacient?]... An [abortifacient?] that causes a fertilized egg to not implant is an abortion in my understanding. [Sam Harris: “And that's equivalently—that concerns you to the same degree as a murder.”] Yeah.

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He said the fact that condoms do not effectively prevent AIDS is proof of his argument. “It’s like stopping a mosquito with a chain-link fence,” Wilson said Wednesday at a public discussion at the University of Idaho.

A few years after marrying my wife, I was diagnosed with AIDS. I must have contracted it during my pre-conversion promiscuous years. Does this mean I must abstain from sex with my wife for my lifetime? Doesn’t my wife have an obligation to satisfy me sexually, since her body is not her own? First, the principle. What we have here are conflicting obligations. She does have an obligation to satisfy you sexually, but you have a greater obligation to protect and nourish her. If you cannot have relations with her without endangering her, then you should not have relations. I am afraid I have no sympathy for a man who believes his sexual needs are comparable to his duty to protect his wife. This principle applies to all manner of sexually transmitted diseases. Having said this, a few things should be said about AIDS. If by AIDS you mean that the HIV virus is present in your body, then I would refer you to the book Inventing the AIDS Virus by Peter Duesberg. It is quite possible that your situation does not warrant abstention from sex at all— but only because the HIV virus is harmless.

HIV does not cause AIDS. According to the scientific method, HIV does not cause AIDS. The virus is a perfectly harmless passenger virus that does nothing more serious than to cause dementia in AIDS researchers.

The AIDS epidemic is the result of lifestyle patterns, particularly the use of recreational drugs, and that AZT, a chemotherapy widely used in AIDS treatment, can actually cause AIDS. This book demonstrates that AIDS is not infectious in any way, shape, or form, and that the AIDS research establishment has been poleaxed by all the federal billions being, ahem, invested in AIDS research. […] AIDS is basically the result of a gradual toxic buildup resulting from drug use. The drug explosion began in our culture in the sixties, and AIDS began appearing some years later. Duesberg shows that such drug use is rampant in the homosexual subculture. In the same way a cigarette smoker will not get lung cancer after his first month of smoking, so it is with hard drugs. For the systematic users of hard drugs, the effect over time includes the suppression of the immune system. The patient is then assaulted by opportunistic diseases.

AIDS is basically the result of a gradual toxic buildup resulting from drug use. The drug explosion began in our culture in the sixties, and AIDS began appearing some years later. […] If the hemophiliac has the bad luck to be infected with HIV, he then gets the “AIDS treatment” (AZT), which really can bring on AIDS.

I've written elsewhere about my belief that King Solomon was behind the settlement of Central America.

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Given the lifespans and all these conditions taken together, there's no reason to think that the global population was tiny at the time of the flood. If each woman had 20 children, not outlandish if she had 200 years of fertility, the world's population by the time of the flood could have been in the neighborhood of 20 billion, over twice the world's population today.

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Based on my rudimentary math skills, the world is about 6,000 years old. [Sam Harris: “Okay.”] I'm a young earth creationist... I'm an anti-Darwinist young earth creationist... I believe in a historical [Adam]. I don't believe in evolution at all. Well, let me correct that. I do believe in variation within species.

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This complex web involves lots of other people—your father, your mother, your brothers, your sisters, your friends, your foes—all of them connected in some mysterious way to that unruly creature in your loins. Fights come from lusts (Jas. 4:1), and lusts come from fights. Driven by lust, masturbation is not a solo act. Everybody is involved—some as victims, others as co-perpetrators, and some as both.

California is requiring churches to not sing in their worship services. The governor of Illinois has said that churches might not be able to meet for a year. Yeah, right. We can see what you are doing, you know. As far as Christians are concerned, this really needs to be the tip of the spear. If there is any place where we disregard their requirements, it should be here, under these circumstances, in this time. This is the moment. […] No free Christian should obey an order from the civil magistrate to put on their servility badge as he or she offers the worship of a free Christian. And so what should Christian worship look like? It must not look like they are trying to make it look. No singing? Are you kidding? Cover your face to interrupt the Spirit-wrought transformation from glory to glory? Why in Heaven’s name would we do that? Why on earth would we comply? You know, I don’t think we should be listening to you guys.

When everyone covers their faces in a situation like this, it is a sign of submission. When a populace covers its collective face like this, it is a flag that is flying over a conquered country. And when church leadership requires believers to worship God while masked like this, it has the effect of bringing the flag of that conquest into the sanctuary.