Jiro comments on Questions on Theism - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Aiyen 08 October 2014 09:02PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 09 October 2014 10:26:18AM 2 points [-]

Faith Healing doesn't look like much on a video. A person with cancers who stops having cancer doesn't suddenly look different.

Comment author: Jiro 13 October 2014 06:33:02AM *  0 points [-]

If faith healing only does one specific thing, that's a plausible explanation: perhaps by chance the one specific thing it does doesn't look good on video.

But faith healing isn't supposed to do only one specific thing. It supposedly can heal a lot of different things--yet somehow all of the things it heals don't look good on video. That's a much bigger coincidence--why can't it restore lost limbs, or cause scars to vanish in seconds, or grow hair on a bald person, yet it can cure hundreds of different conditions, as long as they're indistinguishable on video from not-curing?