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Originally Posted by Trey_P-I_47
I have a question for you AKA Monet, how many people have you seen on the brink of death and suddenly for no reason they recovered completely. or how many patients have you dealt with that had cancer, and through no radiation or treatment, were apparently healed. I know that these types of cases exist, and I am not preaching religion at anyone, I just have a legitimate question, and would like some insight from a person in the medical field. Surely you have seen something like this, right?
I just think, at some point its kinda hard to put off that there is no God, otherwise how do people magically get healed in what we call 'Miracles'. If there is no medical treatment and obviously the body cant just make major medical changes overnight, or sometime is the matter of hours, how else do you explain something like this without a higher being?
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I still have faith in God. And the way I "rationalize" it as being a witness to seeing utter pain and suffering in close relatives throughout my life, is like the sick man beside the Bethesda pool when Jesus walked by and He asked him, "do you want to be healed"...
Now as a scientist, I have to concede that it is about evolutionary protective genes or single nucleotide polymorphisms or microRNAs. Some people carry them and in times of stress, these genetic survival mechanisms are activated in succession at the right time, in the right place. It is testable, repeatable and possibly an exception rather than the rule. It is highly stochastic and the shows the randomness of the Universe.
I am not a physician, so I rarely see any patients. I just test their genetics. However, I develop genetic rodent models that can test those boundaries in pre-phase I clinical trials. Your question is more about acute vs. chronic pathological lesions. If cancer is chronic pathology to the bone, the odds are against the person surviving this illness without invasive experimental treatment.
But I did just see some article discussing sudden cardiac arrest and how to reactivate it by some USC cardiologist. Then, I hear the opposite that if the heart is not reactivated under 90 seconds, the brain will die... That means we have to do more research as to what is correct.
Scientists question the process "how" and rarely the question "why". I think that theologians and philosophers are about the question of "meaning of life". Scientists cannot successfully answer that kind of question, the testable hypothesis cannot be examined.
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