Are religious and supernatural influences believed to play a role in most medical miracles?
Many medical miracles occur in a religious, spiritual or supernatural context — people pray to God, or to saints, or rely on what they believe to be the healing energies of the universe. Perhaps some unknown mind-body process is triggered by belief. But even this is pure speculation — because atheists and agnostics also experience what seem to be miracle cures. Not knowing why something works is not necessarily a problem. Throughout the history of medicine, we often have known that a treatment works before we understand how it works. Aspirin and penicillin are two examples. We can add miracle-type cures to that list. Perhaps science will someday explain these occurrences. For now, they remain inexplicable. How do people who experience these cures explain their recoveries? In interviews conducted for a book called Remarkable Recovery (Riverhead), individuals whose illnesses were reversed pointed to a variety of factors they thought played an important role in their healing. Paradoxica
Many medical miracles occur in a religious, spiritual or supernatural context — people pray to God, or to saints, or rely on what they believe to be the healing energies of the universe. Perhaps some unknown mind-body process is triggered by belief. But even this is pure speculation — because atheists and agnostics also experience what seem to be miracle cures. Not knowing why something works is not necessarily a problem. Throughout the history of medicine, we often have known that a treatment works before we understand how it works. Aspirin and penicillin are two examples. We can add miracle-type cures to that list. Perhaps science will someday explain these occurrences. For now, they remain inexplicable. How do people who experience these cures explain their recoveries? In interviews conducted for a book called Remarkable Recovery (Riverhead), individuals whose illnesses were reversed pointed to a variety of factors they thought played an important role in their healing. Paradoxica
