phlogistician said:
I believe you, because when I cut myself fixing up my house, I stop bleeding in a very short time, and my body heals itself over time. What is there to be skeptical about in the bodies natural process of healing? The healing, is by definition, 'spontaneous' because I do not have to initiate it, it does that itself.
On an old (I believe defunct) television show called Unsolved Mysteries, there was a story of a young woman who very suddenly came down with an extremely rare condition that causes intense pain throughout the nervous system. Basically your whole body is in pain, and even being on the maximum dosage of morphine, she was still uncomfortable.
This was a very rare disorder, and according to what the doctors and the literature had told the mother of this young woman, the chances of any type of recovery were extremely low, almost unheard of.
The mother recounts that she had gotten a very strong impression, like the notion had been implanted in her mind, that in her words "they were going to see a miracle." She had this very strong feeling that there was going to be a complete recovery, and that it was going to be more or less divine in nature, basically a religious miracle.
I think she had somehow organized a large prayer circle of sorts, and though I forget all the details, the "miracle" did happen, and the girl recovered spontaneously.
The cause of that particular condition (I do not remember its name) are unknown, and a spontaneous recovery of that nature would most definitely be considered statistically miraculous. Unless by some slim chance she had been misdiagnosed, but what other condition would cause those symptoms and disappear without being known, I personally couldn't say.
Maybe it was just a coincidence that the mother had the premonition that a miracle would occur?
I believe candy was referring to instances like this, where the odds of any type of recovery are extremely slim, not cutting your finger and witnessing the "miracles" of blood clotting and wound healing!
