The most important reason anyone is an atheist

[Little Rik]

Yes, because those are the countries with the best medical care. Kind of a weird correlation that, the nations with the better health care having better health

It smell of rot.
Pharmaceutical companies are there for the big money and too many doctors in collusion with these companies are also there for the big money so only the rich can afford the medications while 80-90% of the people can not and die in the gutter.
Didn't the doctors swear to the Hippocratic Oath that they will look after the interest of the sick?
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/greek/greek_oath.html
So where you think are we heading to if not down hill in the gutter?
How can you call this progress?

You might actually have a valid point. At least, if it wasn't for the fact that quality of life for those with terminal conditions is also being improved. Why don't you tell someone who's had their cancer go into remission that they are living a life of shit. Even in those cases where an eventual relapse is almost guaranteed, breakthroughs are being made all the time. Funny how those pesky facts keep getting in the way of your bullshit ideas, isn't it?

Eh, i work for QLD. health as a nurse so i may have a practical experience.
What do you have?
Every working day i see patients who tell me that is better to die then to live like that (a life of shit).
You are talking only about cancer.
What about all the rest.
People stuck in wheelchairs that have to be helped even to go to the toilet?
If you would give the magical tablet that would put an end to their life they would take it straight away.

I don't think anyone would claim that science is infallible. Yes, mistakes are made, but medical science (like all science) is a process of constant revision and improvement.

It would be if it follow the Hippocratic oath.
Unfortunately it doesn't.

What advanycements have been made in spiritualism in the last few decades? I hope you're not going to say that spiritualism has been perfected and no more improvement is necessary, are you?

It hasn't because it doesn't need to be perfected.
Spirituality is the effort to sprout the seed within and the seed is perfect so it does not need to be perfected.
All it need is to make it sprout.

Tell that to smallpox. It's called research, dipshit.

Unfortunately your skull is too small to contain enough brains.
I already explained what happen when you prevent the flood from spilling in a particular area.
It will spill elsewhere.
You can eliminate smallpox but then the spill will create a new disease or damage some other part of your body or mind or both.
How can you be so stupid not to understand how the system works.
It is only by preventing the flood that the spills can be avoided not by avoiding the spill in one place.

Still waiting on that evidence for spiritual cures.

Have you ever seen a cart being pulled by 3 horses when only 1 or 2 are in good nick and the other one or 2 are left to starve?
Where you think the cart can go in such a situation?
That is how the medical science is going at the moment.
One day they find a cure to a particular disease and the next day they have to find a solution to a new problem.