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To: GL of Sector 2814; metmom
Yes, I know that it's from a skeptical website, and that you'll probably dismiss it. People who believe in UFOs, The Bermuda Triangle, and astrology feel much the same.

This is the internet we're speaking of...if you do a google search of ghosts, the Loch Ness Monster, and ESP, you'll find more sources about each than you have time to read.

....buuut not so much when you google "skepticism".

Well alrighty-then!

I've LIVED several medical miracles. I don't need to read about them, but as a hospice nurse I can name instances where 100% of doctors, scientists had no explanation for what occured, no natural explanations & nothing verified by science, etc. etc. etc.

Like the man that lived over 40 days with no water. He was supposed to die when taken off the vent since he had a severe stroke affecting his midbrain.

That was one thing, but no intake of any fluids for that long...in a weakened state to begin with nonetheless, there's simply no scientific literature to support it. No "natural" explanations.

I've seen similar instances with food.

And I've seen no natural explanations that have even been offered, let alone satisfactory.

I also haven't seen any adjustments to the consensus that people can go 10-22 days without water before succumbing and this happened several years ago.

82 posted on 06/05/2009 7:11:20 AM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for g!ood men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: tpanther
...buuut not so much when you google "skepticism".

I just googled "skepticism". It gave me 11,800,000 hits.

As for your personal experience with medical miracles: I've said it before and I'll say it again. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. While discussing these sorts of things on the internet, I've talked with with people who claim to have experienced miraculous healing, telepathy, knowledge of past lives, dowsing, and alien abduction...and yet when investigated, these sorts of claims vanish like a puddle on a hot day.

In the absence of rigorous documentation, there's simply no reason to believe such things.

87 posted on 06/05/2009 7:40:10 AM PDT by GL of Sector 2814 (One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word. -- R A Heinlein)
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