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Tebay, Wendy M wrote: > Christianity (the Bible) says that when one or more are gathered and > pray in God's name, anything can be done. It also says that the sun goes around the earth. > Quantum physics > talks about how the universe is in part revealed to us via experimentation, > dependent on the way in which we have chosen to conduct the experiment. Where'd you get THAT from? Quantum physics says nothing of the sort... I should know. I study it. It DOES say that things look different depending on how you look at them--but that doesn't mean they ARE different. > maybe even a good publicity stunt! That it would be-- "Parkinsonians reveal that they are credulous morons, next at eleven" > There's a biologist, Rupert Sheldrake, who talks about these fields > (morphogenic fields?), which exist everywhere, and along which information > travels almost instantaneously. There is exactly ZIPPO evidence for these fields. > maybe by sheer strength of numbers we can > help speed the universe along to the outcome to which we all desire. Right. Maybe 1 50,000th of a percent of mankind, which makes up a tiny fraction of a percent of the life on Earth, which is less than a millionth of a percent of the mass of the Solar System, which is one out of 50 BILLION in this galaxy, with over 1,000,000 known galaxies... the universe'll REALLY notice that... It's exactly what I'D call strength in numbers. All in all, this is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. It's all well and good to hope for a cure, and I think medical science will produce one before TOO long, but this idea was just bunk (not to mean any personal disrespect to Ms Tebay; just to this particular idea of hers). False hope is one of the most destructive things in the world... I'd like to suggest Ms Tebay read Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World. You should be able to find a copy in the local library... It contains an excellent counter-argument to all the silly ideas the New-Agers have started spreading around (and all the crazy ideas the religions have been spreading for millenia).