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Making the lame walk again.
November 19, 2012 at 7:01 am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20390966
Quote:Four years after losing the use of his back legs, dachshund Jasper is able to walk again after taking part in a medical trial.
Cambridge University scientists reversed his paralysis by injecting him with cells grown from the lining of his nose.
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RE: Making the lame walk again.
November 19, 2012 at 7:37 am
Damn you, I thought I was going to finally hear of a healed amputee. Which makes me wonder, if or when science actually manages to grow back entire limbs, how quickly will believers scramble to accredit it to God?
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RE: Making the lame walk again.
November 19, 2012 at 7:55 am
Everything old is new again.
Science delivers real miracles and feeds the multitudes.
Religion continues to deliver empty promises.
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RE: Making the lame walk again.
November 19, 2012 at 10:40 am
My dog has no nose.
How does he walk?
This does not compute.
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God, or science?
November 19, 2012 at 1:26 pm
Watch the video embedded in the article, extremely impressive -it's a "miracle".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20365355
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
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RE: God, or science?
November 19, 2012 at 5:25 pm
(November 19, 2012 at 1:26 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: Watch the video embedded in the article, extremely impressive -it's a "miracle".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20365355 I merged your thread with this one, NAC, because both are about the same topic and were created on the same day.
PS: That is impressive indeed, but not a miracle. 
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RE: Making the lame walk again.
November 19, 2012 at 5:25 pm
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2012 at 5:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
What are the requirements for a miracle anyway Rayaan? How do you know that this isn't a miracle?
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RE: Making the lame walk again.
November 19, 2012 at 5:31 pm
Soon as I saw the title, I immediately thought of the line in Roy Zimmerman's song "Jerry Falwell's God", in which the titular God was wrecking a party: "And he made the lame to walk.. and, you know, these are my friends, so they're still lame but they can walk!"
As for the miracle requirements, maybe God is working its magic through the scientists, like the claim usually goes.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Making the lame walk again.
November 19, 2012 at 5:33 pm
In a religious context of the word, I think of miracle as something that cannot be reproduced and/or understood by the known laws of nature.
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RE: Making the lame walk again.
November 19, 2012 at 5:36 pm
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2012 at 5:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
So...what sort of thing qualifies on those grounds? This definition of a miracle also seems to make the the whole "miracle" bit suspiciously close to a naked appeal to ignorance. Do we have any examples that might help us further explore the subject? Would something like plant growth hormones, inhibitors, and behavior (or any other mystery of botany - just as one area of interest) be a miracle then? Similarly....wouldn't this suggest that anything we can't explain is miraculous? Surely this can't be the case...
(important, to me at least, since without an example of anything like this how can we say that this is what a miracle actually is?)
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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