What are atheists saying about this miracle?

It is ironic that atheists say, show me a miracle or why aren't there miracles like in Biblical times, and then when you show them documented evidence, they dismiss it as a lie, or a misdiagnosis, or just unexplained/unknown. There are documented cases of medical miracles, every year, but according to atheists they are all fake.

That being said, it is still possible this was not a miracle, due to the placement of the leads, the heart monitor. if they were not correctly placed, faint heart beats would not register. I personally believe it was a miracle, but it is possible it was not. God is alive in our lives and shows himself in many ways.

"Tends to give the power of prayer significant consideration..."

Sure, until you consider what selection bias is. You're taking this one case, and then ignoring the millions upon millions of time where prayer has failed.

Also, isn't it funny how these "miracles" always involve healing potentially reversible injuries? We know people can be resurrected, even after being down for awhile. Yet, your God never heals a severed limb, or cures Down Syndrome, or heals third degree burns. Hmm.

"No real scientific explanation" does not equal "Therefore, an invisible wizard is responsible"

Plus, let's even say God DID heal this guy. Congratulations, you just proved your God is a monster. He'll save THIS guys life, but not do anything to save the children slaughtered in Sandy Hook or the 6 million Jews tortured and killed in the Holocaust.

ONE dr said "I'm calling it a miracle because I've never seen anything like it". Nowhere in that article does it state there is no scientific explanation for it.

No, it doesn't give the power of prayer significant consideration. You have to rule out A LOT of stuff before you go there. Like the fact that people have "died" and the machines don't pick up ANY sign of life, yet the person "wakes up" later. This isn't unheard of. Rare, but not unheard of. To simply ignore all other possibilities while trying to push your own opinion makes you dishonest.

Yeah, I saw that on network television news yesterday.

I'll just say that I do have some small experience doing scientific research in academia, and I've seen numerous instances of the mainstream media simply getting technical concepts wrong, or transforming them into something incorrect in order to make them more "understandable" or "interesting."

I'm not saying that I'm convinced the story was reported incorrectly, or even that it probably was. I'm just saying that I want to see some more evidence before I accept the account as correct. Then we'll move on to the next step.

Essentially, the theists' arguments over this can be reasonably anticipated to fall into the "God in the gaps" category. Well, there have already been cases of people who were "dead" for fairly long periods who were successfully revived with no apparent damage (the ones I recall involved people who drowned in cold water). So right there, this isn't entirely unreasonable. Very unusual, yes. But I see no reason to attribute it to a supernatural entity.

Yeah, any evidence of a miracle that comes from a blog is indisputable.

Nevertheless, let me go look at this thing so I can more thoroughly dismiss it as nonsense.

EDIT:

The Blog post -- in addition to referring to a peer-reviewed local news broadcast -- also references a case of an Australian woman being brought back after 42 minutes. Interestingly, in the Australian case, where atheism is much more prevalent than in America, no one mentions God or miracles or prayers and yet this woman still came back.

Tends to give the absence of prayer significant consideration.

Do you know that when surgeons perform open heart surgery they stop the heart and drain the blood - the person is legally dead for up to an hour - and yet they are brought back to life? That is not a miracle, it took a lot of experimentation and deaths to 'perfect' the technique. There are errors when a person is in a comatose state. If he had come back to life after a full autopsy then you may have an argument.

Silly writing and none too bright doctors. If they worked for 45 minutes trying to get his heart restarted they were pumping blood by their efforts. It was only a few minutes later that his heart started on its own. Rare, but not a miracle by a long shot.

Prayer had nothing to do with it. That has been shown multiple times.

Read the definition of the word 'miracle'. A scientific explanation may not be currently available but it does exist. Read about third conditionals.

I think the man didn't have a very good doctor if he thought he was dead for 45 minutes.

Volcanoes used to be miraculous until the discovery of tectonic plates. Not having an answer YET does not mean miracle.

Jeez.