American fundamentalism and being 'born again' - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

aklim · #13 12-14-2009, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by HuskyMan

it is said that there are no atheist in fox holes. we might include oncology wards in that statement as well. when a man or woman directly faces death, their belief systems are challenged.

anytime I question the existence of a higher power, I step out into the night and look up at the stars above. no man could have ever engineered or created anything as magnificent as that.

the optic nerve between the eye and the brain carries more information in TWO SECONDS than the fastest super computers can process in 100 years.

the body systems work in ways that no doctor will ever fully understand nor comprehend. once upon a time, I worked for one of the country's best neurosurgeons. he shared with me that there are things we will NEVER understand about the human brain. he said he felt as if he were only experimenting or scratching the surface when performing brain surgery. eyes seeing, brains processing, hearts beating, kidneys and livers filtering, stomach processing food......it's a miracle.

You never heard of a "Hail Mary Pass" in Football?

Not sure I believe in the Teleological Argument. After all, just because man, at this level cannot do it doesn't mean it can never be done, ever. I cannot understand Einsteins' equations but that does not mean it cannot be understood.

And the laptop today processes more information than the best computers did when they were first made. What of it?

Things change. Knowledge increase. A friend of mine who had Hodgkin's disease was told that a year before, they would just have sent him home to be comfortable. Instead, they gave him radiotherapy he lived 18 years more before it came back. The current doctors felt he was over irradiated and today, they would have done spot radiotherapy. Just because your employer was top of the field then doesn't mean that someone more knowledgeable will not come along. We met an RN that knew 15 drugs when she started. Wife has to study more than 15 classes. In 50 years, they will have to know way more than that to start. So just because he cannot understand how it works today is not a reason to say that it can never be understood given time.