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WolverineDG

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16. What's with the "miracle = credit" stuff

Reply to Humanist_Activist (Reply #14)

Wed Dec 28, 2011, 07:40 PM

Dec 2011

because I don't get it. That's a very narrow (and self-serving) definition.

And just because one person's recovery is called a "miracle" doesn't stop anyone from trying to figure out why they recovered.

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Boy's survival from flesh-eating bacteria deemed a miracle by his family - and the pope [View all] Angry Dragon Dec 2011 OP

I think that the doctors should be getting the credit EvolveOrConvolve Dec 2011 #1

From the article PADemD Dec 2011 #2

What did the dead woman do that the doctors didn't? ChadwickHenryWard Dec 2011 #6

Doesn't matter WolverineDG Dec 2011 #11

Forget credit, what about the long term negative consequences? Humanist_Activist Dec 2011 #14

What's with the "miracle = credit" stuff WolverineDG Dec 2011 #16

I would consider this a combination of good luck and good treatment LeftishBrit Dec 2011 #3

The media just eat up any story skepticscott Dec 2011 #4

Are there no depths to which the Roman Catholic Church will not sink? ChadwickHenryWard Dec 2011 #5

"The doctors went through every avenue they could to save his life and he survived." frebrd Dec 2011 #7

This is a great tried and true example of how the Catholic church corrupts, moobu2 Dec 2011 #8

What an insult to the doctors treating the kid. Odin2005 Dec 2011 #9

Sounds pretty miraculous. i.e no other readily available explanation Starboard Tack Dec 2011 #10

Miraculous implies a supernatural explanation, its remarkable, to be sure... Humanist_Activist Dec 2011 #15

This is related to the prayer cloth scam TV evangelists moobu2 Dec 2011 #12

I see what the vatican did there and I'm going to learn from it. deacon_sephiroth Dec 2011 #13