Reply #95: Most 'miracles fail rigorous verification tests [View All]

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The UK's Times says today (monday 20 Octo) that:


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A miracle is understood to mean a sudden and lasting cure for terminal illness which is “medically inexplicable”.

According to Professor Raffaello Cortesini, head of surgery at Rome University medical school and a longstanding member of the Vatican’s Consulta Medica, or medical advisory panel, most of the “miracles” submitted for approval fail the panel’s rigorous tests. Professor Cortesini said that cures such as inexplicable remissions of cancerous tumours or leukaemia are examined by a team of five doctors, three of whom must agree that the recovery has no earthly explanation.

Dr Cortesini, who was among the doctors who approved the miracle attributed to Mother Teresa — the disappearance of a tumour — said he was convinced that it had a “supernatural” rather than scientific explanation.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-860933,00.html