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Paralyzed Woman Walks Again
mgv writes "It's been promised for years, but it's just become a reality. Stem cells taken from cord blood have enabled a paralysed woman in South Korea to walk again for the first time in 20 years. The details are on the Sydney Morning Herald Site which requires registration, but can also be seen on the World Peace Herald. Too late for Christopher Reeve, but not for the thousands of new injuries worldwide each year or the millions of paralysed people from other diseases in the world."
Is it butter or not?
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YAY
According to dictionary.com... the correct spelling is Paralyzed.
Bash! Bash! Bash! Bash! ...
If he wasn't doing such a shitty job we wouldn't have to.
I will worry about playing God as soon as you can prove scientifically that there is a god
Really? What do you think the Babel Fish is, a load of dingo's kidneys?
The Babel Fish is small, yellow, and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centers of the brain which has supplied them.
The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything that mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence of God. The argument goes something like this:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you dont. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadnt thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best-selling book, Well That about Wraps It Up for God. Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
When you have nothing left to burn you must set yourself on fire
i prefer last week's dolphin story.
That God exists is not a requirement for one to play God, in the same way that the non-existance of Superman did not prevent Christopher Reeve from playing him.
~~~~~ BigLig2? You mean there's another one of me?
Why the heck was this modded flamebait? Lemme guess, it had the words "religious" and "Catholic" and made a good point that we don't want to talk about.
That's kind of like saying that your pancreas is "left over" from a human reproductive process.
Parts of our bodies are left overs. Have you used your appendix for much lately?