Science tells us What?
Steve Echard Musgrave
The last time I looked the brain was connected to the body in an organic.whole.Well then what progress have we made in nuerosceince. The much balleyhooed sceince that is going to tell us how to get a cup of consciousness and how it evolved itself.U.S. Department of Health Statistics in 1940, life expectancy at birth was only 63.6 years, compared to 77.9.1 in 2010. However, the main reason it was so low was continued high rates of infant and young child mortality. A large majority of people who made it to age five also made it to age 65. Life expectancy at age 65 was already a robust 77.7 years in 1940.With increasing technology have also come increasing cancer rates. “From 1950 to 1990, the overall cancer mortality rate increased steadily in the United States, a trend that ran counter to declining mortality from other major diseases. (Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2001)
According to a study by the American Psychiatric Association on the perceived effectiveness of medications among mental health service officers, mental health care users with serious mental illnesses reported that of those given psychiatric medication, 17.2% said that it helped them a great deal, 31.6% said it helped them a lot, 26.1%, some, 14.2% said that it helped a little, and 10.4% helped not at all . For placebos: Of mental health care users with serious mental illness who had no psychiatric medication but were given placebos 4.6% said it helped them a great deal, 23.4% a lot, 17.9% some, 32.7% a little, and 21.4% none. So whrn they tell me there is no such animal as the paranormal I agree as long as they admit there is no such thing as the normal.Ther has been no major medicien for psychotic illness in 30 years. How then are these materialists going to me convince methat the mind is an epipehnomenone of the brain. You can not even change the tire on the brain OK thats my rant on the myth(myth as progressive revelation ala Hegel) of scientific progress as an arguement aginst the existence of the paranormal.