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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: Neocon who wrote (1485)3/6/2002 6:02:51 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
If the phenomena are inexplicable, you cannot rule out spiritual explanations.

I rule out nothing. However, given the consistency with which previously inexplicable phenomena once attributed to supernatural agency, and the difficult contradictions that emerge if one assumes supernatural agency, it seems pretty clear where the highest probability lies.

I am well aware of the "traditional answers" to these contradictions. They are not even remotely satisfactory, and it seems very clear to me that they are attempts to justify a conclusion reached long before the evidence was examined. If one Lourdes pilgrim out of a million is cured, what explanation makes more sense (bearing in mind, of course, that inexplicable remissions occur in other settings as well)? That a few people actually discover a not-yet-understood capacity to heal themselves, or that some supreme being who could heal anyone he pleased happened to feel that the faithful needed encouragement that day?

I always ask what is better to believe, that all will be made right in the end, or that none of our striving and suffering matters in the total scheme of things.

Why limit yourself to those two possibilities? Is it not possible that our striving and suffering might actually allow us to make things right?
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