(September 28, 2009 at 2:22 pm)Saerules Wrote: So... one must be blind if they are to truly see? I've known children to die because of parents who had faith... who prayed for them to get better.
The placebo effect is the effect of faith... and that is just what faith is: a placebo. The placebo is fine when a person is not truly sick... but when a person is in true need of medical attention: a placebo will do them no good.
Im not saying don't go to the doctor. The Placebo effect only works on certain illness, as far as i know not instant cures to blindness, deafness, broken or shortened bones, etc.
(September 28, 2009 at 8:15 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: As George Carlin says. (to paraphrase"If it's God's Will, and he's going to do what he wants to anyway, why the fuck bother praying in the first place? Can't you just skip ahead to his Will? It's all very confusing."
EvF
Gods reacts to our prays so it makes a difference (im researching an essay on this at the moment actually
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Mark Taylor: "Religious conflict will be less a matter of struggles between belief and unbelief than of clashes between believers who make room for doubt and those who do not."
Einstein: “The most unintelligible thing about nature is that it is intelligible”
Einstein: “The most unintelligible thing about nature is that it is intelligible”
