Of course, we as believers believe that all healings are ultimately because of a supernatural Deity....because we believe that God created us as we are, and our bodies, if cut, scraped, burned, broken etc can heal themselves (depending on the wound)...God created minds able to grasp, produce and administer healing medicines/surgeries, etc.
But I assume you reject that and want something more like my friend's mother that was prayed over (she had some kind of female cancer) and when she went to the bathroom she said something black came out and at her next scan there was no cancer there. But I don't think just someone saying that happened is probably acceptable "proof" to you, and in fact, for those that believe that that was cancer leaving her body, there is still no way to "prove" it really. Someone could say, oh, she didn't have cancer to begin with or it was a mistaken diagnosis or whatever.
I guess I think that some people believe that miracles can happen and some don't. Maybe they'll change their minds sometime, and maybe not.
lovemonkey, from where do you think life on this planet came? Do you embrace the theory that all life on earth evolved from the same organism?
What if someone claimed with 100% conviction, a conviction they'd bet their life on, that Vishnu cured their AIDS? You wouldn't believe it for a second no matter how strong their beliefs are... only way to change your mind would be to have scientific proofs presented to you(I hope!). You know for a fact that it's a billion times more likely that it's all in their head than there being a a god different than your own. That's the same problem I'm having with believing the claim that Jehovah/Yahweh/etc cured your friends illness, or worse, your friends friend
Until you can prove it, it is ALL WORDS and honestly, very cliché.
The concept of miracles don't mix well with the blend of an 'all loving god' and the world we live in. Why would your god cure some spoiled westerner of their cancer while literally hundreds of thousands of children are left to merciless starvation every
single day? If you believe in miracles, then you also believe that your God picks, by his/her own will, who to cure or help. The
choice to not help those in the most dire need really says something about the deity in question.
How come that whenever a natural catastrophe strikes it's always "god works in mysterious ways" and when some baby is found a week later in the rubble of a collapsed building it's suddenly a "miracle"? Whoever says that got some nerve. It's evil-bent hypocrisy.
And also, if you want to argue that praying accelerates healing I'm sorry to say that there have been studies done where the opposite turned out to be true. I'm sure someone else mentioned them to you.
I do NOT to claim know where life came from, BUT there are a couple of theories that sound plausible to me. The fact that amino acids can take form very rapidly(literally within days/weeks) under the right conditions and that life seem to have sprung up in different places on earth during its early history suggests to me that it is not totally unbelievable that life originated from earth, by natural processes. But there is still a lot to be discovered and I'm looking forward to future scientific advancements that can take us closer to our earth as it was 4 billion years ago.