He was not healed of anything except the blindness and
not human blindness but spiritual blindness.
Retinal degenerative diseases, including age - related macular degeneration and Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) are the predominant causes
of human blindness worldwide and are very difficult to treat.
Penn Vet researchers have had success in treating various forms of blindness in dogs with gene therapy, setting the stage to
treat human blindness.
My undergraduate research students and I use a small tropical fish called the zebrafish to study the function of the ocular lens and what can go wrong to produce cataracts, one of the leading causes
of human blindness.
This is part of how God sees and thinks, part of
the human blindness we must learn to overcome.
Yet it is crucial to remember that in Romans Paul views both sin
an human blindness toward God as that from which we are being delivered.
As Oppenheimer himself remarked, «Taken as a story of human achievement, and
human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.»