Posted: May 04, 2012 9:30 am
Atheistoclast wrote:There is a scene from the Hammer Horror B-movie, Asylum (1972), which is one of my favorites ever.
A young psychiatrist, Dr. Martin, is visiting an asylum and investigating 4 "incurable cases" of insanity among the patients. He visits a certain, Dr. Byron, who has been making battery-powered puppets/dolls that he is trying to control via his mind.
Dr. Byron believes that he can breathe his consciousness and will into his creations in the same manner as the LORD God breathed life into Adam. He pointedly asks Dr. Martin if he believes in the account of Genesis 2 whereby Dr. Martin replies that he "believes in science". The scene begins at 14:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pBl8kYEpS8
Dr. Byron then succeeds in animating his dolls with the power of his mind in the following part of the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZb0AEn3 ... ure=relmfu
I particularly like this because materialistic science is consistently in denial about the power of mind (and faith) over matter even though there are plenty of scientific studies on the subject of psychosomatic illnesses and cures. What for the scientist is supernatural nonsense, is actually natural mental energy.
Joe, you do know that Asylum belongs to that category of movies known as 'fiction', don't you?
