/tags/faith/ Recent bookmarks tagged #faith Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:24:53 +0000 http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/11/faith_in_science_and_religion_truth_authority_and_the_orderliness_of_nature.html The conflation of faith as “unevidenced belief” with faith as “justified confidence” is simply a word trick used to buttress religion.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #faith #imported:pinboard #religion #science #to:fb</p> Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:14:28 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:24355 faith imported:pinboard religion science to:fb http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/why-are-there-so-few-resurrected-corpses-in-the-united-states/274681/ I suspect United States is in fact ahead of the African nations in bringing the dead back to life. It's hard to find a good estimate of how many bodies are resurrected in the U.S. each year, but let's go with this vastly oversimplified figure: 92,000. 92,000 is the number of people the American Heart Association estimates are saved in the U.S. each year after their hearts or their lungs have stopped moving, i.e. by CPR. Or let's go with a percentage: 45.3%. That's the success rate in the bottom-quarter of American hospitals in a 2012 study in restoring circulation to a body whose heart has completely flatlined. 14.5% of the bodies treated managed leave the hospital. And that's in the hospitals with the lowest performance. Wait till you see American rates for getting the lame to walk and the blind to see.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #faith #imported:pinboard #medicine #religion #to:fb</p> Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:28:17 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:32388 faith imported:pinboard medicine religion to:fb http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/why-are-there-so-few-resurrected-corpses-in-the-united-states/274681 I suspect United States is in fact ahead of the African nations in bringing the dead back to life. It's hard to find a good estimate of how many bodies are resurrected in the U.S. each year, but let's go with this vastly oversimplified figure: 92,000. 92,000 is the number of people the American Heart Association estimates are saved in the U.S. each year after their hearts or their lungs have stopped moving, i.e. by CPR. Or let's go with a percentage: 45.3%. That's the success rate in the bottom-quarter of American hospitals in a 2012 study in restoring circulation to a body whose heart has completely flatlined. 14.5% of the bodies treated managed leave the hospital. And that's in the hospitals with the lowest performance. Wait till you see American rates for getting the lame to walk and the blind to see.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #faith #medicine #religion #to:fb</p> Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:28:17 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:23539 faith medicine religion to:fb