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To: Neocon who wrote (1269)	3/6/2002 9:17:51 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

That looks more useful. But again, you missed this wonderful caveat from one of your links... In November 1988, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints sponsored a symposium on healings and miracles, to which were invited the Lourdes Medical Bureau and the International Medical Committee. One question prompting the symposium was the reduced number of verified healings which were reported both at Lourdes and in the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Was the apparent reduction an indication of the lessening of divine occurrences, or were the advances in medical knowledge now making explicable what was formerly considered inexplicable? udayton.edu Still, the case of the person apparently cured of MS is fascinating. Why doesn't it happen every time? My feeling is that there is something excellent - but non-supernatural - occurring. You disagree, evidently. I believe that if we make it to the end of this century without WWIII I'll have been proven right - possibly far sooner, who knows? Genetic studies and modifications may stop any one (whose parents can afford it) being born with MS, ever again. So we'll have improved on the work of the 'designer', LOL. Certainly I think we'll be able to explain spontaneous cures in scientific terms, maybe even cause such, without invoking Asclepius to grant divine healing... Thanks for the links - interesting reading. They do show a lot of caveats: all the studies conclude that more research is needed, and the effects don't seem to reproduce properly, and the factors affecting things may differ... but it certainly looks as though there is something meriting further research.