Timeline for Is watching an amputated limb regrow proof of the supernatural?
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| Sep 29, 2020 at 1:20 | comment | added | GettnDer | I hate nitpicking but There is never proof. There's only evidence! :) Evidence of supernatural, sure. | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 10:28 | comment | added | Tim B | @DarrelHoffman fingerTIPS not fingers. Big difference. | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 9:59 | comment | added | Guy Inchbald | @henning--reinstateMonica In science it is not necessary to observe something directly in order to confirm its existence; for example we confirm the existence of the Earth's core by observing seismic waves and not the core itself. How does "Let's suppose that God grants the miracle" confine itself to the regrowth? The loading is right there in the hypothetical "let's suppose" question, so the answer begins by clarifying the logic of that hypothesis, before going on to offer criticism. | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 9:40 | comment | added | henning no longer feeds AI | Logically, if we could prove that God healed amputees... And that is where the premise is already "packed" with the thing that needs to be proven, i.e. it begs the question. In the scenario described by OP, we only observe a spontaneous regrowing of limbs. We don't observe that God is the cause of the regrowing. Imputing God as the cause is purely speculative, and not better than imputing any other reason. | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 20:01 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | ...human amputees can heal in the same way that some other simpler creatures can... They can! At least up to a certain age. There have been cases of very young children losing fingers in an accident and regrowing fully functioning fingers on their own. Obviously this is the kind of thing that can't be ethically experimented on, but it's a documented phenomenon. Making it happen in a full-grown adult isn't currently within the realm of modern science, but at least we know there is such a mechanism in nature even within our own species. | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 18:05 | history | edited | Guy Inchbald | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 22, 2020 at 8:57 | history | answered | Guy Inchbald | CC BY-SA 4.0 |