"Science Baby"... not "Miracle Baby"
This kind of stuff galls me, right up there with thank god instead of thank your docs and nurses and their science education.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.It doesn’t gall me. Doctors and nurses are not omniscient, omnipotent beings. They are our fellow human beings, fraught with error.
Science has benefited mankind in many ways, and I am grateful for science. However, there is a startling aspect of reality beyond our immediate sensory world that is not addressed by science.
Miracles happen. Not supernatural, magical miracles but the miracle of each moment of consciousness.
WilliamFleming
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Jan 22, 2019
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@mzbehavin “any amazing or wonderful occurrence” is a definition given by my Advanced English Dictionary. And the derivation is the Latin “miraculum” which just means “object of wonder”. Before that was a proto-Indo-European word “smei”, smile or be astonished.
Words do have meanings, and those meanings are diverse, variable, and changing. We do not live in a tightly controlled world of precise meaning and truth. We live in an astonishing world of profound mystery.
Reality is a miracle. The emergence of life is a miracle. Every second of conscious awareness is a profound miracle. Whether or not a person labels ultimate reality as “God” or “nature” Is totally beside the point and is a trivial distinction not worth even thinking about.
When faced with a marvelous, astounding reality, why would anyone shirk away and replace awe with a quibbling argument? “Don’t be astonished or in awe” you imply. “It’s nothing but nature. Get back to your mindless television indoctrination into materialistic scientism”.
oh geez...why would a female fertility specialist who worked so hard to learn how to do this even mention "miracle" in the same sentence? She just discounted herself in the equation...
thinktwice
Level 8
Jan 22, 2019
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Yeah, I usually speak up and ask if they are grateful for the science, the doctors and nurses etc.. Sometimes, I ask why they haven't said anything about them. I think it is so disrespectful to those people who are the reason for the success.
Unfortunately, people with imaginary beliefs are not to be trusted when it comes to logic.
When I'm not very kind, I sometimes ask why their god was such an arsehole to the others that suffered or died.
micktoz
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Jan 22, 2019
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Fuck yeah
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