Science & Religion Lessons from History It is possible to be a Christian who accepts evolution Evolution advances the theory that life is the product of natural selection and mutations that give nonliving material life over an extended period. It suggests that elements such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, and others come together to form nonliving materials such as metals, water, air, and living things such as people, grass, elephants, birds, and insects. According to evolutionists, changes occur accidentally to the DNA of a person. These changes give them the ability to survive harsh environments that destroy less adaptive individuals. For most of its history, the church claims that God is the creature of all things, both living and nonliving things. The Bible teaches that the creation began out of nothing. It affirms the concept from the first chapter of the Book of Genesis that avers that God is the creator of the earth and the heavens. It asserts that the trinity of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit purpose to create a universe. Other scriptures in…

History of hypertension Based on the work of William Harvey, the physician, hypertension started by the indulgent of the cardiovascular system, the first published measurement of blood pressure was done by Stephen Hales.  A link was noted between cardiac hypertrophy and some diseases like kidney diseases, which were termed as bright diseases, as physician Bright was the one who emphasized the connection (Beckles and Chou 1265). Hyperpiesia was a condition of the concept of hypertensive disease as spreading by circulatory illness as described by Sir, Clifford Allbutt. The descriptions that would later become hypertension came from Richard Bright and Thomas Young, among others. There was a possibility of blood pressure being elevated through the thickness of blood vessels in the kidney. With the invention of cuff-based, hypertension becomes into being in 1896; this resulted in blood pressure being measured in clinics. Nikolai Korotkoff improved the techniques of measuring the blood pressure, he described the Korotkoff sound heard when artery get auscultated by the stethoscope and the sphygmomanometer cuff get deflated. Donal Nunn later invented a precise/accurate automated oscillometric sphygmomanometer device…

A Brief History of Your Favorite Alcoholic Drink: Wine The debate of when and where the first wine was produced rages on, with archeological evidence from far and wide revealing some fascinating facts. From as far as Georgia and Armenia, to the Asian part of Iran, it is believed that wine could have been brewed as early as 8000 BCE. We’ve also heard reports that Macedonia and Ancient China could also have been among the oldest wine producers in the world. The first wine was produced from wild grapes. However, that was long before humans took grape farming seriously and domesticated grapevines in Egypt, approximately around 3000 BCE. The most recent research announced in January 2011 that the world’s oldest winery had been discovered somewhere in Armenia. The researchers found old wine jugs, grape pressers, glasses, and grape sticks dating back 6,100 years. Stories from China The relationship between grapes and wine is linked to the Chinese where residues taken from pottery shards carbon-dated to between 7000 – 6600 BCE, were proven to be taken from a beverage made from…

U.S. Modern History Primary Source Assignment The selected primary source is “I Have A Dream,” which was made by Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. during the March on Washington in 1963 as part of the United States and the Civil Rights Movement. The primary motive of the speech was to demonstrate the plight or struggles of the African American people besides expressing his dream of equality. According to Martin Luther King, the U.S. was not committed to ending segregation, discrimination, and poverty that persistently engulfed the African Americans. To him, this lack of obligation was evidenced by the notion that 100 years had passed since the country signed the Emancipation Proclamation (History.com., 2020). Consequently, Luther acknowledged that it was now time to make justice a reality for everyone. Luther emphasized the black people’s citizenship rights, including voting and purported that the blacks and their supporters would not relent until these demands were fulfilled (History.com., 2020). The speech reveals that the U.S. was a toxic place for the African Americans before 1963 because they…

The History and Development of the Psychiatric System since the 19th Century The psychiatric system has evolved and changed and enhanced their culture and language since the 19th Century. Many people have come up to fight for social justice and survivor citizenship and defending human rights and fighting against sanism through the building of critical communities. One of the changes in psychiatric treatment is the treatment of the psychiatric poor according to the principles of ethical treatment. Early 19th Century, the hopes of a successful psychiatric treatment lead to the burgeoning of mental hospitals in different countries, for example, Britain and North America. By the mid 19th Century, psychiatrists believed that some mental illnesses, for example, schizophrenia came as a result of unconscious conflicts that result from early childhood. Another change is the fair treatment of the psychiatric poor, unlike in the medieval period, whereby the psychiatrists were being mistreated without having done any wrong. “Mrs. Mills slammed the door in my face. She is vexed at any expression of sympathy” (p 44). The “mad people” were being treated like…