The "vital force" was disproven a long time ago when a chemist synthesized an organic compound from an inorganic compound.
Exactly the same way that religious people thinik prayer works and superstitious people believe their lucky rabbit's foot works and liberals think socialism works.
Maybe this will help the interested. Nothing will help the ignorant.     http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/StudentJournal/volume2/tondo.pdf     It's amazing how treating the body as a whole seems archaic, but continuing to utilize doctors who kill more people annually than guns cars and illegal drugs annually combined, with misdiagnosis, prescribing the wrong drugs or drugs that create more problems than they solve, and over medication of patients, faith is still placed in the AMA, a more political motivated organization driven by the all mighty dollar, than a desire to cure the individual.     Kinda scary once you look at the number of people who die simply because they are poisoning their bodies to treat symptoms rather than find a cure, so they can continue the same bad habits that got them where they are at in the first place.
BuckNaked: "Maybe this will help the interested. Nothing will help the ignorant." I wouldn't call true believers ignorant, Buck, but there's no point in discussing anything with them.
I like how you turned that around the way you did... Let me ask you this, do you believe in what a chiropractor does?     Many in the medical community think they are quacks, practicing junk science, witch doctors for a lack of a better word. Yet their training has more to do with the basic science of the body, bone structure, nervous system, and nutrition. Why do you suppose that the majority of the medical community criticizes and ignores this fact? I thought they believed in science??   A chiropractor takes more nutrition training than a doctor does, but the AMA suggests before changing your diet or starting an exercise regiment, you should see a doctor. If they are actually pushing science, shouldn’t they send you to a person with the most scientific training?