Scientists Do All The Work....Dumbfuck Xtian

[Minimalist]

gives credit to god.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2...l0417.html

Doctors asked him to volunteer to be the first person to have an experimental drug made from human-embryonic stem cells injected into his body.

"We were just stunned," said Atchison, who was with his mother and grandfather when researchers approached him. "We were like, 'Woo, really?' We were all just kind of in awe."

Atchison, known to friends and family as T.J., described the events during an interview Tuesday with the Washington Post - his first detailed account since disclosing his carefully guarded identity to the Post. Atchison's story reveals provocative insights into one of the most closely watched medical experiments, including what some may see as an irony: that a treatment condemned on moral and religious grounds is viewed by the first person to pioneer the therapy, and his family, as part of God's plan.

There's no helping asswipes like this. Why not just pray for your fucking god to give you back your legs and see how far that gets you?

[DeistPaladin]

A little off topic but the irony of this story really drives home my principle objection to religious-based morality: it takes the eye off the ball. When we speak of morality, we should be talking about or obligations to one another as sentient beings, not our devotion to ancient taboos and superstitious ideas of divine will. Religion demonizes harmless activities like blasphemy, idolatry and destroying microscopic living cells in order to help people.

Religious apologists often like to discuss where we get our morals from. Religion is neither necessary nor helpful as a framework for our discussions on morality.

[reverendjeremiah]

There's no helping asswipes like this. Why not just pray for your fucking god to give you back your legs and see how far that gets you?

Yup, and when its all over it will be a miracle from god. He couldnt walk before, and now through the grace and miracle of god he can walk again.

Isnt Jesus wonderful to heal him like this?

And then he will find some other form of science to ban once he is up and about.

[Doubting Thomas]

Hey that's just par for the course. Whenever someone has a life-threatening disease, if they're cured then God gets the credit. Forget about the fact that they were also treated in a hospital by doctors using medical technology based on scientific discovery and knowledge of the human body based on the Theory of Evolution. Forget about the fact that since God supposedly controls everything, he made that person get a life-threatening disease in the first place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niqVVENiY2c

It's no different when someone's house & all their belongings are destroyed in a tornado, and they always go on TV saying, "I give thanks to God for sparing our lives."

[Minimalist]

"I give thanks to God for sparing our lives."

People are fucking stupid!

[Napoléon]

IT'S ALL GOD'S DIVINE PLAN! WE DONT UNDERSTAND! WE SHOULD NOT QUESTION GOD'S DIVINE PLAN!

^ Sarcasm

[Ashendant]

A little off topic but the irony of this story really drives home my principle objection to religious-based morality: it takes the eye off the ball. When we speak of morality, we should be talking about or obligations to one another as sentient beings, not our devotion to ancient taboos and superstitious ideas of divine will. Religion demonizes harmless activities like blasphemy, idolatry and destroying microscopic living cells in order to help people.

Religious apologists often like to discuss where we get our morals from. Religion is neither necessary nor helpful as a framework for our discussions on morality.

Do you mean sapient or sentient?