@kennethamy,
kennethamy;104167 wrote:If there are miracles, then there is no naturalistic explanation of them. If they exist, then they are supernatural interventions by God. So why would you believe there must be some explanation of why a miracle occurs in one instance, and not in another?
OK --let me make a clarification. The Lourdes International Medical Committee can only go so far as to pronounce something an "inexplicable cure". It is the Catholic church which decides whether or not this cure is a miracle, and that decision is usually based on an accompanying "religious experience".
There does seem to be a "god trigger" area in the right side of the human brain -- formerly the popular term was "God of the Right Temporal Lobe", but I believe new research is changing the specific area.
Neuroscientists are working on the structure and function of brains of generally reliable mystics and "miracle" recipients. They're trying to learn what creates these anomalies. You're right, of course, it may turn out to be necessarily a supernatural event.
But if a medical finding is made, say, concerning a "miraculous" cure at Lourdes, a finding that could save thousands of lives, could not the initial "cure" at Lourdes be considered an even greater miracle? A way in which god pointed scientists in the right direction to save many?
rebecca
