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bennyboy · January 5, 2015 at 8:54 am

I'm sorry, Pickup, but what does this scientific news story have to do with atheism?

**Whateverist** · January 5, 2015 at 9:07 am

Maybe just that miracles are common place and require no god.

Mudhammam · (This post was last modified: January 5, 2015 at 9:14 am by Mudhammam.)

(January 5, 2015 at 8:54 am)bennyboy Wrote: I'm sorry, Pickup, but what does this scientific news story have to do with atheism?

I guess it should have went to a different sub-forum but I wanted to make the point of contrast between actual miracle workers and the frauds our religious friends believe in.

For example, I see shit like this on my Facebook feed: "Off to Beaumont. My son has a 102.7 temp wish us luck and prayers please."

So, are we to pray or are you taking him to the hospital? It makes zero sense to do both.

I also, of course, was hoping to goad a little. 0:-)

Gawdzilla · January 5, 2015 at 9:25 am

(January 5, 2015 at 8:46 am)Alex K Wrote:
(January 5, 2015 at 8:41 am)Gawdzilla Wrote: One of my fundy aunts sent me that link with the note "See what happens when God inspires scientists?"

I wrote back with a one word reply. "Hiroshima."

But does that even make sense?

Yep. If God inspires scientists to do one of them, why not the other?

**Alex K** · January 5, 2015 at 9:31 am

(January 5, 2015 at 9:25 am)Gawdzilla Wrote:
(January 5, 2015 at 8:46 am)Alex K Wrote: But does that even make sense?
Yep. If God inspires scientists to do one of them, why not the other?

Oh, I thought you were highlighting nuclear weapons as a particularly obvious example of inspiration from God, which had me wonder. You just meant it's all-or-nothing...

Gawdzilla · January 5, 2015 at 9:35 am

(January 5, 2015 at 9:31 am)Alex K Wrote:
(January 5, 2015 at 9:25 am)Gawdzilla Wrote: Yep. If God inspires scientists to do one of them, why not the other?

Oh, I thought you were highlighting nuclear weapons as a particularly obvious example of inspiration from God, which had me wonder. You just meant it's all-or-nothing...

Yep. "All things come from God!" including the tsetse fly and Zyklon B.

abaris · January 5, 2015 at 10:57 am

(January 5, 2015 at 9:25 am)Gawdzilla Wrote: Yep. If God inspires scientists to do one of them, why not the other?

Given his track record, Hiroshima and Nagasaki are more on the lines of another day at the office for god anyway.

JuliaL · January 5, 2015 at 12:52 pm

What were once vices are now habits.
What were once miracles are now commonplace:
Far seeing -> television
Flight -> flight
Necromancy (as practiced on the mostly dead) -> medicine
Demon banishing -> anticonvulsant pharmaceuticals

The lame to walk and the blind to see -> just another day at the office.

**Minimalist** · January 5, 2015 at 1:03 pm

(January 5, 2015 at 8:54 am)bennyboy Wrote: I'm sorry, Pickup, but what does this scientific news story have to do with atheism?

God missed his chance to regrow a limb for an amputee. Now science has beaten him.

The loser.

**robvalue** · January 5, 2015 at 1:07 pm

Haha yeah. Science wins bitch.

http://whywontgodhealamputees.com

After 2000 years God is found asleep on the starting line.

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