When the person healed goes to the doctor&the doctor confirms the person is completely healed of their illness that modern medical science had no answer for?
2007-08-20 11:28:03 · 40 answers · asked by Maurice H 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is called spontaneous remission. Medical science has known about it for a long time.
When someone regrows a limb, that will be a medical miracle.
2007-08-20 11:30:40 · answer #1 · answered by atheist 6 · 12⤊ 0⤋
Until Hans and Zacharias Janssen invented the first compound microscope, the technology did not exist to confirm things like the fact that maggots came from flies' eggs. While scientists theorized that the same patterns of life they had seen elsewhere would also apply to flies, the common man did not believe that and they simply believed that maggots were spontaneously created from rot.
Just because the technology does not exist to identify something does not mean it will never exist. Nor does it mean that we should stop searching. Indeed, while spontaneous recoveries and unexplained illnesses exist, I feel that it is only the challenge of man that we haven't developed sufficient technology to identify that particular disease. It's not that we are "at fault" for our shortcomings. There may be a day when we understand everything there is around us. Until then, we just have to keep trying.
And the true "miracle" isn't in anything that man puts his hand to. The miracle is that life, including disease, exists at all. And I don't think that atheist or believer can debate that the circumstance that life exists isn't wonderous.
2007-08-20 11:42:11 · answer #2 · answered by Dominus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That happens to people at times, albeit with relative infrequency and without regard to the person's religion or lack thereof.
That doesn't make it a god-based miracle -- it just means something interesting happened that can't be fully explained, but it is more likely due to the person's genes, general health, body chemistry, random chance, misunderstood drug interactions and more than that it represents god's personal intervention by means of a miracle.
I worked with physicians who saw this happen from time to time. More often than not, in the case of disease, the disease went dormant and then returned later to kill the affected person. Other times, the person died of a different illness (such as a heart attack or an infection) or got run over by a car while recuperating. Not miraculous stuff.
2007-08-20 11:36:10 · answer #3 · answered by BAL 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why on earth can't a person who doesn't believe in deities believe in medical miracles? No reason, as long as you define the word miracle according to the definition most people use. Atheists can believe in medical miracles all they want.
That aside, everyone knows that medical knowledge is still evolving. There are illnesses that we have no cure for, illnesses we cannot diagnose, and yes, illnesses that disappear with no explanation.
2007-08-20 11:37:35 · answer #4 · answered by Rhea 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just because modern medical science has no answer for it, doesn't mean there isn't a scientific explanation - just that we haven't discovered yet. Hundreds of years ago things happened that scientists at the time could not explain, but with new developments we can explain them. In the future, this may well be the case for things we are unable to explain today.
2007-08-20 11:34:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have only begun to study the brain, let alone the mind! The mind is a vast, fascinating thing and we don't really know much about it. We haven't moved much past the old days when bloodletting was thought to cure everything.
We think we live in a culture where modern medicine is on the cutting edge, but that edge is way way out there and we're not even near it!
2007-08-20 11:32:51 · answer #6 · answered by P S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because medical science will say that there's a small chance of recovery, not no chance, in almost every case. So when in a very small percentage of cases people are supposedly healed by faith it's no surprise to people who understand statistics. this is the same percentage that would have recovered anyway.
The sad part is that a lot of people skip the medical care that would help them to pursue faith healing that won't. And then when they don't heal they are blamed for lacking sufficient faith.
2007-08-20 11:32:42 · answer #7 · answered by thatguyjoe 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Let me know when a 'healer' has a higher success rate than a placebo.
There are unexplained cures all the time. Medical science does not know all the answers. If one of these unexplained cures coincidently visits a 'healer' before hand that does not mean that the 'healer' did it.
Let me know when Benny Hinn starts going around the cancer wards and curing everybody, rather than sitting in his million dollar mansion.
Let me know when any 'healer' cures an amputee. Just one documented case will do.
Forgive me if I do not hold my breath.
2007-08-20 11:45:25 · answer #8 · answered by Simon T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Provide some actuall cases reported to a medical journal or any other official record.
All I have seen so far are anecdotal unsubstantiated claims.
Really, If you can not provide honest evidence for your claims you should not be promoting them. Quackery causes harm.
2007-08-20 11:35:59 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it's called immunity. Eventually some bodies can get rid of diseases previously thought impossible to cure. Some people are immune to ebola, the European blood in my family stops me from getting the Black Plague. Some people are immune to HIV-- it's not a miracle, but our bodies learning to fight.
How do you explain a rabies shot working?
2007-08-20 11:38:18 · answer #10 · answered by mathaowny 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋