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most people here dont believe in his existance..and believe that the bible is full of mistakes..all people here pretty much have thier mind set..i would like to ask though..do u guys believe in miracles and if so have any explainaition for it..or are miracles only conincedance? or there isnt such things..
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well..so what if u saw a miracle..like someone who couldnt walk again was able to or couldnt give birth and was able to..and what if someone u know got really sick? dont u wish upon a miracle or something..what do u atheists do? give em a high five or something and wish em luck? just wondering what u do when u know that science cant help u.. |
1. I'd attribute this partly to confirmation bias, for example, you believe that some lady can't give birth and by praying to god she became fertile, yet you would completely ignore the hundreds of other woman who would also pray for the same miracle and receive nothing
2. Research has shown that people who pray to "god" or to "allah" or to "zeus" or "santa claus" (or all four) are more likely to recover from cancer and heart disease. It dosn't matter who you pray to, it could be that gay Oiliphilant, the giant cookie monster or shambola the unholy octopus, as long you have the conviction that this deity is watching over you and helping you, it will. That is how powerful the spiritual mind / body connection is, and there will be alot of research in this area in the future.
As for Atheists they can receive the same benefits through some forms of meditation. This prayer / meditation creates a placebo effect, it helps strengthen your immune system, by helping you overcome a feeling of overwhelming helplessness.
3. You may have seen evangalists on TV who are able to heal people through Gods divine power, after intense mental conditioning the people in the audience usually reach the Alpha state of mind and have impaired judgement and are around 25 times more suggestable. The preacher will then carefully select a person in the audience who is afflicted , and command the person to heal. With the increased suggestibility, this purges emotional tensions (catharsis) which relieves the patient of pain for the time being. The patient then cries out how God has healed him, which in turn further hoodwinks the audiences suggestability, increasing the catharsis of the next dupe to be healed. There you have it an audience in Pavlov's ultra-paradoxical phase of brainwashing for perhaps the rest of their lives
there is no such thing as a miracle just probability
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