GoodMuyis:


Thank God for calvary

007author:
Only fools believe in miracles

007author:
Only fools believe in miracles

Terminally-ill patients would be well advised to find out the religious beliefs of their doctor, according to research showing the effect of faith on a doctor's willingness to make decisions that could hasten death.

Doctors who are atheist or agnostic are twice as likely to take decisions that might shorten the life of somebody who is terminally ill as doctors who are deeply religious – and doctors with strong religious convictions are less likely even to discuss such decisions with the patient, according to Professor Clive Seale, from the centre for health sciences at Barts and the London school of medicine and dentistry.

"If I were a patient facing end of life care, I would want to know what my doctor's views were on religious matters – whether they are non-religious or religious and whether the doctor felt that would influence them in the kinds of decisions they were looking at," said Seale.

dalaman:
If miracles are true there won't be any need for doctors in the first place. In fact if Christianity is true, there won't be any need for doctors

NPComplete:
Lol. Stupid thread.

I would have taken the claims more seriously if u got it from a peer reviewed paper. Not some claim being promoted by a religious website that even clearly states that the research was conducted by a religious body. Talk about bias.

Secondly, even some irreligious people and atheists believe miracles are possible. They just don't believe it should be attributed to the Abrahamic god or any other god for that matter.

You guys have completely lost your sense of rationality.

Terminally-ill patients would be well advised to find out the religious beliefs of their doctor, according to research showing the effect of faith on a doctor's willingness to make decisions that could hasten death.

Doctors who are atheist or agnostic are twice as likely to take decisions that might shorten the life of somebody who is terminally ill as doctors who are deeply religious – and doctors with strong religious convictions are less likely even to discuss such decisions with the patient, according to Professor Clive Seale, from the centre for health sciences at Barts and the London school of medicine and dentistry.

"If I were a patient facing end of life care, I would want to know what my doctor's views were on religious matters – whether they are non-religious or religious and whether the doctor felt that would influence them in the kinds of decisions they were looking at," said Seale.

butterflyl1on:


And these ones have found their rationality right?

NPComplete:


Lol. Keep clowning around. The article you are quoting even says "terminally ill" patients. And it doesn't even mention that there was a miracle after. So that means they all died eventually. But leave it to butteflylion to bring up a completely irrelevant argument that had nothing to do with the quote he replied to.

NPComplete:


Lol. Keep clowning around. The article you are quoting even says "terminally ill" patients. And it doesn't even mention that there was a miracle after. So that means they all died eventually. But leave it to butteflylion to bring up a completely irrelevant argument that had nothing to do with the quote he replied to.

hopefulLandlord:


The entire guardian article is a nonsensical representation of a well made study

You can read an analysis that exposes the dishonesty behind the guardian article here http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2010/08/26/dr-atheist-wants-to-kill-you-faster-says-guardian-article/

funny enough, the study can actually be spinned against religious doctors but the agenda behind the writer of the article made him/her spin it one way and ignore the other side

Abstract
Attitudes towards active voluntary euthanasia (AVE) and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) among 1,238 doctors on the medical register of New South Wales varied significantly with self-identified religious affiliation. More doctors without formal religious affiliation ('non-theists') were sympathetic to AVE, and acknowledged that they had practised AVE, than were doctors who gave any religious affiliation ('theists').

euthanasia
noun
the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma.

NPComplete:
Lol. Stupid thread.

I would have taken the claims more seriously if u got it from a peer reviewed paper. Not some claim being promoted by a religious website that even clearly states that the research was conducted by a religious body. Talk about bias.

Secondly, even some irreligious people and atheists believe miracles are possible. They just don't believe it should be attributed to the Abrahamic god or any other god for that matter.

You guys have completely lost your sense of rationality.

Desyner:
55% of doctors ?

salvation101:
Nairaland scientists would not believe this. They would rather believe the voice in their head

butterflyl1on:
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False Dichotomy Fallacy.

If the whole world were Christian then your claim would be true. But since it isn't, then you are simply dropping a hot fallacy

Even in Bible days, miracles were not for everyone and were not everywhere (as it were). Even Jesus did not perform miracles everywhere as expressly depicted in scripture.

profolaolu:
A thread like this wouldn't make front page it is only controversial thread made by atheist and Muslims for Christian does, seun watch it something is wrong here

profolaolu:


A thread like this wouldn't make front page it is only controversial thread made by atheist and Muslims for Christian does, seun watch it something is wrong here

salvation101:


Nairaland scientists would not believe this. They would rather believe the voice in their head