RE: Evidence for Believing
October 4, 2019 at 2:25 pm
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2019 at 2:28 pm by GrandizerII.)
(October 4, 2019 at 7:10 am)Grandizer Wrote:(October 3, 2019 at 10:59 pm)Inqwizitor Wrote: How about the miraculous healing of Marion Carroll. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TO7PJkzcVU
Haven't seen the video yet. Is this about spontaneous remissions? If so, there are various potential physiological explanations for those, and so they aren't really good evidence for a god.
Anyway, will give this a watch later and what this is about exactly.
Just watched the vid.
I'm not going to critique Marion's experience, but one case of a spontaneous remission right after praying to God is not good evidence for God.
A much better way to demonstrate God's [probable] existence would perhaps be:
Having a significantly large number of cases whereby spontaneous remissions for MS occur immediately after praying to God for healing AND comparatively small number of cases whereby spontaneous remissions for MS occur but not after praying to God (sample size of attempts is large enough, of course) AND scientists aren't able to come up with any plausible naturalistic explanations
