Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Evolution doesn't care about the population
We get no love even from abstract ideas?
Hence if it was somehow possible for a "stop mutating" mutation to develop, it would give an advantage to the carriers, and soon enough nobody would mutate anymore.
Until their failure to mutate led to them all dying out from their environment changing or something.
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I have the Briefings series of lectures on the future of public broadcasting (including one by Stephen Fry) on my hard drive. It's a couple of BBC cameras in a room at Westminster, pointed at someone talking. There is no copyright problem. And yet, it is just allowed to die.
I regard downloading those lectures via BitTorrent and passing them on to people who would find them useful as a moral act.
Denying the world Stephen Fry should be illegal, I think we can all agree on that.
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I think you'll find that Gio believes Auckland doesn't actually exist.
I need to turn my brain into knots trying to figure out if I can make that not be contradictory with my claim. I'm sure if I was a Philosophy Professor I could manage it easy.
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I feel so clever for having come up with Ian Dalziel...
That's nothing, apparently you invented all of Auckland as well.
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Or exorcised might be a typo of exercised.
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You'll here no argument from me there, but if we'd left everyone with the juniors, who would you have put in place of Masaga, McAlister, Latimer, Messam, Ross, de Malmanche?
I wasn't saying they shouldn't be there. Someone had to take the field, you pick the best 22 you can.
Just that saying "oh look we saw how good some of these new kids are" wasn't the reason to put them in the All Blacks. We have the junior all blacks for that very purpose.
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To suggest that it may only be tangentially or coincidentally related to her being in the same room as the osteopath at the time is downright ridiculous, and to imply that her benefits are due to some fideistic predisposition is a little insulting.
Perhaps I was unclear or you misunderstood. I was saying that it probably was due, at least in part, to the osteopath (you said that it might also have been helped by something else that she'd already been doing all along). In summary: No I wouldn't believe that a person would be cured by prayer, but I can believe that an osteopath helped.
That wasn't my point at all, my point was about the similarities of the story that you told and which might be told by another person about why you thought the intervention had worked. The difference between the two stories would be the different interventions.
But your underlying assumption is that she got some form of magical faith healing. Gio's wife was treated and given exercises to practice at home, and her previously immutable symptoms eased.
Ugh, no such assumption please. I presume there are some practical things in osteopathy that actually do something real which can help. See above for why I posted.
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Uh, I think you just conflated them ...
Not me sir, I've never made any commentary on osteopathy that I'm aware of. I was commenting on other people's comments :)
Can you give me an analogy that would apply to religion. Somebody being cured or something, or winning at Lotto after praying... what are you looking at exactly? How can religion be said to sometimes "work" in the same way as alternative medicine?
There are umpteen people around the world who will stand up and say "I had illness/disease/disability/was dying etc and I went to see a priest/spiritual healer/tv evangalist/monk/witch doctor and afterwards I was fine [possibly then adding "god cured me"]."
Which isn't poles apart from your story of your wife's experience where she had an issue, went to see an osteopath, and since then it's been fine. Different intervention, but same result leading to the belief that the intervention was in some way responsible.
I would say that in the first instance, if the person actually was improved, it wasn't because of some higher being, but some other factor, and in your wife's instance, it might have been partially related to the osteopath and whatever he/she did. As Russell points out, there's obviously some evidence that osteopathy has some effect (I know very little about it).
I was just entertained by the similarities of proof that you and a couple of other people were using which led them to very different conclusions than people presenting relatively similar 'religious' proof.
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TVNZ 7 will be on Channel 97 on Sky, up there with the news and documentary channels. Media7 will screen at 9.10pm on Thursday, and several times thereafter.
What does freeview provide that sky doesn't these days?
I remember there was a time when the one-off cost of freeview, plus the fact that it had some channels that sky didn't, made it more worth looking at. Is the second half of that gone now?
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Trying to conflate it with faith healing is just building a straw man.
Oh I'm not conflating them at all. Just contrasting the reactions to the two, which are completely opposite, when people seem to be indicating that the evidence (or lack of) for both is not poles apart.