At 10/27/09 01:37 AM, Gobblemeister wrote:
To see a man just escape a car crash alive by a hair, one cannot truly believe this happens by chance when you hear of it so often.
Say, arguments sake, that I shot you. Maybe with 22 cal, because the bullets are small. What decides if you live or you die? In the end, my aim, and how you are standing. Maybe the bullet doesn't hit any vital organs, but that has in the endn nothing to do but with the angle in which the gunn is pointed, the bulets trajectory, and the position of your body at the point of imapct.
And that kind of philophy, that you demostrate, is extremely worrying in my view. So, god interferes to save people (random people, as well) from car crashes, but does nothing to stop genosides, natural disasters and epidemics?
And yes, it happens by chance. You have selection bias. You may hear of these survivals often, but how often do you hear about people dying horribly in car accidents? Well, the news prefer to report the survivors because it's more uplifting than talking about peeling some guys corpse from the dashboard. You claim these miracles are caused by god (in stead, of say, imporved car traffic safety and stronger built cars). Where's the proof? Is there any linking factor between those who survive? Do atheists or other heathens die more often in crashes than christians (also, what kind a fucked up god...)?
Note that I have been in two car accidents, neither of them fatal to anyone (one did have our grandma's car flip over a few times). I survived. Was it gods work, or was it just because the speeds in both cases were low, or that Volvo really knows how to build cars? Nope, must have been god.
