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God hates amputees...science cures.

Autodidact

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horizon_mj1 said:
That sounds about right to me.
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Oddly, God happens to give us that knowledge right about the time we devout huge amounts of time to applying the scientific method to reality. You know, the method that relies on naturalism, and assumes that we can learn about reality without God coming into it. Funny, that.
 
horizon_mj1

horizon_mj1

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Autodidact said:
Oddly, God happens to give us that knowledge right about the time we devout huge amounts of time to applying the scientific method to reality. You know, the method that relies on naturalism, and assumes that we can learn about reality without God coming into it. Funny, that.
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IMO knowledge is God, as well as truth, beyond that it is up to the individual. In this case, well I have to say it is what it is.
 
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sirat

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At a medical conference, three researchers were scheduled to discuss limb regeneration. The first, a Russian researcher described how after an accident cut off the patient's hand they were able to regnerate and grow the damaged tissue joining the two and now the patient can even use that hand to write.

The second researcher was from China. She described how their patient was in an unfortunate accident which severed his limb at the shoulder. They only had part of his third digit to work from. Yet, with their genetic growth and manipulation protocols they were able to regrow the limb, successfully attach it and now the patient is a concert cellist.

The final researcher was from the U.S. He claimed that his patient was involved in an accident so horrible that only his rectum and a badly mangled bit of scalp and hair were recoverable. But, applying what they know of genetics and human stem cells they were able to regenerate the person and today he is a presidential candidate.

salaam friend,

Seriously, if one is looking for loopholes that God is 'supposed' to fix, how about the fact that with very very few exceptions everyone dies. That certainty sort of makes all of the other little stuff look like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

wa salaam

sirat
 
Koldo

Koldo

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sirat said:
salaam friend,

Seriously, if one is looking for loopholes that God is 'supposed' to fix, how about the fact that with very very few exceptions everyone dies. That certainty sort of makes all of the other little stuff look like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

wa salaam

sirat
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Surely you understand the relevance of 'quality of life', don't you?
 
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sirat

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Koldo said:
Surely you understand the relevance of 'quality of life', don't you?
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Alvy Singer: [addressing the camera] There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.

From Woody Allen's Annie Hall
 
Koldo

Koldo

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sirat said:
Alvy Singer: [addressing the camera] There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.

From Woody Allen's Annie Hall
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And your point is...?
 
Autodidact

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Koldo said:
And your point is...?
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If I may, aside from using humor in a gentle way, perhaps sirat's point may have to do with the idea that, hand or not, miserable and short or not, all life (from his point of view) is a gift of God that we should enjoy and appreciate.

Which I agree with, other than the God part. However, I also think it's great when science figures stuff out and actually makes someone's life even better.
 
Koldo

Koldo

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Autodidact said:
If I may, aside from using humor in a gentle way, perhaps sirat's point may have to do with the idea that, hand or not, miserable and short or not, all life (from his point of view) is a gift of God that we should enjoy and appreciate.

Which I agree with, other than the God part. However, I also think it's great when science figures stuff out and actually makes someone's life even better.
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I tend to agree with you. However, in his first post, sirat compared science developments that increase the quality of life on human beings as being equal to rearranging chairs in the Titanic. He seems to completely ignore the part of your text that i outlined, because it is as if it were irrelevant to him. That is , at least, what i understood from his words.
 
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