Originally Posted by MrQuike:
“Miracles tackle the underlying illness itself, which is in mind, and all other levels including "biology". It's a mistake to think of them as magic because magic would be under the control of a personal ego.
A miracle, such as growing a limb back, without the convincing physical explanation or vague, fuzzy cop out, wouldn't be considered acceptable to our egos especially in an age of science and rationality. It would strongly conflict with the ideas we have about ourselves and undermine our existence as biological beings in a physical and separated world of objects. Our faith in science will eventually provide the "miracle" though it won't stop people losing limbs in the first place.”
Isn't it far more egotistical to think that simply because we BELIEVE something happened, that it actually did? Simply because we BELIEVE Jesus performed miracles, that miracles actually exist?
It's like that old mantra, "I believe in something greater than us", which is apparently meant to make someone seem modest. Except it doesn't. Because it's all based on the pretence that human beings are the greatest, but oh wait, we are, but not as great as (God), this thing we (for the sake of argument -
may have) constructed.
All this ego talk around Science - I can't buy it. The studying and testing of what really is the greatest thing - the world around us - isn't egotistical, it's humbling. Sorry, but I find the idea of "belief" FAR more egotistical, because it doesn't require evidence, it doesn't require testing, it doesn't require scepticism, it just requires this strange, egotistical belief of "we thought it, so it is". Not to mention the HIGHLY egotistical thought that we're a creator's chosen species!!