Altman Article Recaps 50 Years of Medical Progress

From the Progress-Happens department:  NY Times medical correspondent Lawrence K. Altman writes today about all the advances in medicine that he has seen since his medical-school days in the late 1950s.  

I hope that outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins reads the piece.  Dawkins insists categorically that God does not exist.  I wish he’d offer us his explanation of how we humans are able to come up with mental models of the world, and then use those models to successfully make the world more to our liking, for example in the way that Altman recounts.

A far more plausible conjecture is that somehow, directly or indirectly, Something inspires us to do these things, in ways we don’t yet understand.

A conjecture isn’t proof, by any means.  But the evidence supporting this particular conjecture is enough to make one feel comfortable about making some reasonably-big bets that it’s true.