“In June of 1987, he’s riding down a highway when he gets in a horrible automobile accident that places him in the hospital for 21 days in a coma.”
Tough break.
“The 21st day in the hospital is the 4th of July. At 4:00 in the afternoon, his church is somewhere at a park having a 4th of July picnic when they stop and pray for Lloyd.”
First off, did they NOT PRAY at all for 21 days?
Did NO ONE ELSE pray for 21 days?
Did they directly document that it was exactly 1600 hours? Or was it just ‘somewhere around 4 or so’?
“Guess what happens at 4:00 with Lloyd? He comes out of his coma.”
And the patient’s chart will show that at 1600 his brain activity started spontaneously?
No one just walked in and found him awake, say at 1620, and he said, “i guess i woke up about twenty minutes ago’?
"Guess what else happens”
Godzilla stepped on the church while everyone was at the picnic?
“ - there are a number of other people in the same room with Lloyd who were in a coma for 1-6 months. They all came out of their coma as well.”
At 1600? or within a day of each other? Or within a week? A month?
Or was it more like ONE other coma patient woke up within a few days of Whatsface?
“That is a miracle.”
That sounds like a lot of subjective reporting, uncorroborated testimony, and ‘friend of a friend’ type of stuff.
When I was growing up, it was ‘guy at a party went on a beer run, and he went off the road on Hangman’s Turn, and they didn’t find his body for TWO DAYS, and when they did, the stereo was playing ‘Stairway To Heaven’.’
“How do we know this?”
You’re overimpressed by large numbers and you want it to be true? And everyone who has transmitted this story has made the details a LITTLE more incredible each time?
“Because it’s extremely unlikely by natural causes,”
Extremely unlikely is NOT the same as ‘impossible without the hand of the Divine!’
“ and second it occurs in a context that’s charged with religious significance.”
what is the religious significance of people who were NOT prayed for waking up?
“Our author has to conclude that this was not a miracle, it was just a coincidence.”
No, people UNDER MEDICAL CARE recovered. That’s not a miracle.
“There are several more stories out there like this one, but they all have to be just chance.”
Or lies. Uncorroborated tall tales.
“ He has assumed his conclusion from the get-go.”
Rather, nothing in this story will justify my changing my mind, because it’s too likely to be fiction.
