RicOlie_2 said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rusfefmQDEs
Out of curiosity, what is the atheist explanation for things like this? Or do you just ignore these things and assume that there will be a scientific explanation in the future?
You're asking, what's the explanation for an idiot who had climbed under a heavy and obviously dangerous truck that is held up by a single flimsy jack, who is suffering massive bloodloss, internal injury and going into extreme shock hallucinates two Angels kneeling to his left and to his right in the exact same position as the two Paramedics were kneeling? (Paramedics who were metaphorically "Angels of Mercy").
That of course doesn't even cover why he imagines God would torture him under a truck causing him agony the like of which he couldn't believe, then putting him into hospital for two months making his families lives a living nightmare. Also running up huge medical bills, depriving his family of his income and distracting the Doctors from helping other people. If God really wanted to help him, he would have stopped the truck falling on him in the first place.
So everything up to the recuperating has an obvious explanation after even a few seconds of rational thought. As to God giving him back a little (But not all of his intestine for some bizarre reason) I offer mostly scepticism. He could have imbelished the Angel story to add weight to his claims, since as I note above it's easily explained away. Remember that this guy has launched a succesful book writing career off the back of this story. The profits of which is probably how he is paying the huge medical bills that God lumbered him with. Also it's how he is providing for his family now that God has taken away his livelihood.
However Wikipedia notes...
"The average length of the small intestine in an adult human male is 22 feet 6 inches. It can vary greatly, from as short as 15 feet to as long as 32 feet."
Much more than the 18-20 feet he mistakenly states in his promotional video for his book. If he had started with 32 feet, losing 75% would leave him with 8 feet which is almost what he was left with. Of course human error may also have been a factor. The first set of Doctors getting a different measurement from the second set of Doctors. Who were each measuring a big curled up confusing mass of tubes using two different methods.
If you look at these problems the same way Sherlock Homes would...
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
Using that logic, it's pretty easy to realise that since Angels are impossible, there are hundreds of possible explanations.
A final note: If his prayers worked, how come they didn't for the other hundred thousand people that also died while praying for salvation on that day? It comes down to arrogance I guess (Sorry if this sounds harsh). That he'd believe that out of all the other much more deserving, blameless (He wasn't blameless the incident was his own stupid fault) and deeply good people that had their prayers ignored, he alone was chosen by God as being special among all the peoples of man.
This is the kind of story that only confirms by belief in the non-existence of God.
