I've often wondered why god would create the sun to harm us so quickly and easily yet our very lives depend on its energy and power.

Couldn't he have made it better where it gave us the energy to survive yet didn't harm us in the process?

Maybe he'll get better with time...

Perhaps it's because you've been cursed with pale skin.

Maybe your ancestors sinned or something.

But yes, I've had skin cancer and get yearly checkups.

Your skin color is dependent on where your ancestors lived. It was optimized through adaptation for that particular climate.

I've wondered about this. It seems humans aren't designed to migrate quickly the way we have in recent times. Should "white and delightsome" people be living in tropical climates? I have a good friend that died from melanoma last year. Maybe it wouldn't have happened if he was a "lamanite". I have bad skin...maybe I'll be blessed with dark and loathsome skin if I start sinning harder.

During the Korean War, it was found that white soldiers faired better against frostbite than black soldiers. Apparently dark skin provides protection against the sun and lighter skin is better adapted to colder climates because it tolerates lower temperatures. Beyond those adaptations, skin color signifies little else from a biological standpoint. Culturally, it show how we make divisions between people based on arbitrary traits.

A mutation giving white skin occurred thousands of years ago. It was advantageous during a cool, cloudy climate that existed then. People who did not get much vitamin D from their diet and had to cover their bodies against the cold were then able to more efficiently synthesize the vitamin.

The climate has changed. It's no curse that I'm pasty white and blonde, but evolution always lags what is needed. I have had skin cancer too. Black people sometimes have a similarly caused condition, not with skin, but with blood. Sickle cell disease provides protection against malaria, but is also a double-edged sword.

If you think its bad here, imagine how those people who Brigham Young said lived on the sun are coping. You'd definitely want to have stock in a dermatology company I think.

Lol

seems hemp oil is the one to go for to cure cancer including skin cancer....

http://www.skincancer-survivor.com/alternative-skin-cancer-treatment.html

the latest news from finland tells they have now the first northern europe hemp institute, and a female researcher there speaks out hemp oil is the most effective one on the earth to cure cancers....hemp oil(cannabis sativa) plus olive oil....

Water,air and fire. They will all kill you very quickly if you don't know how to treat them.

Breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer. Gods reward for being female and having children. There are other illnesses that could be added to the list for both male and female.

Life isn't fair, it just IS.

Perfectly stated.

Ron Burr

I've had 2 skin cancers removed (basal cell carcinoma's) and I spent a lifetime in the sun farming so there may be more, but I made my living from the sun and water.

Ron Burr

Canadians got sun?

Contrary to popular belief, yes. Today was in the 80'sF with a hot sun and wind....which we really need right now to get the harvest finished.

RB

There's way more skin cancer deaths today than there were in pre-industrial times. This seems to be because of the vast amounts of pollutants we live in, and which course through our bloodstreams.

Healthy people tend to handle the sun well. So maybe skin cancer isn't god's fault, or nature's fault. Maybe it's mostly our fault for fouling our own nest.

The mean life expectancy in pre-industrial times was 30-35 years. As with all cancers, skin cancer risk rises fast the longer a person lives. It's natural that when mean longevity rises towards 80, a society would see an explosion in cancers.

In evolutionary terms, nature doesn't care what happens to us after about age 30.

My high school biology teacher called cancer "the last disease you will ever get." As a species, we have become very long-lived.

OK I gotta weigh in as a sun worshipper.

I should be the poster boy for melanoma.

However, I'd rather be the poster boy for vitamin D.....

which as it turns out is more than just a vitamin.

Must be why I'm not dead from skin cancer.

That and blueberries as a natural sunblock.

Vitamin D is a hormone. I do eat lots of blueberries but I also use copious amounts of a zinc based sunscreen.

And without the sun, what?

How much of an effect does ozone layer depletion have? Or is that one of those things where "experts" are at polar opposites?

it is a major factor. let me say first this is what I was told in my Enviro Science prof and I did not look this up for myself .... The hole in the ozone layer is over Australia and people who live there (where the hole is) have a much higher incidence of skin cancer.



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