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If it’s not reasonable that God would do it, why is it reasonable that the human body would just decide to fix itself? Which is more probable?

That's a softball lobbed over home plate.

Even a six year old knows that that rhw body fixes itself, perhaps with the comforting addition of a plastic bandage.

The body tries to overcome everything that attacks it. Usually it wins, but eventually it loses. You don't need divine intervention to explain any of that in 99.99% of the situations.

It’s not the normal body fixing itself as it was designed to do sort of thing, as in cuts, burns, colds, etc. It’s healings of conditions that are debilitating and often terminal, even with treatment. Healing of diabetes and asthma does not fall into the same category are healing of a cut or burn. If they did, then there wouldn’t be the need for treatment to manage what is generally considered a lifelong condition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_remission

“In medicine, spontaneous remission is recovery without known reason or cause.”

Without known reason or cause. So, you believe that the human body can just out of the blue, for no reason, up and heal itself from a debilitating or life threatening condition, against all odds and everything that is known about the human body? And you accept that diagnosis of spontaneous remission but won’t accept that it could be a direct answer to prayer?

I guess for someone who believes that life could just up and form itself out of some primordial chemical soup, having the body decide to fix itself from normally debilitating conditions for no known reason, isn’t too much of a stretch.

To me it seems more reasonable that God could heal someone than for something to happen for no reason in total violation of all current knowledge and experience.

If these sorts of things are happening and God isn’t doing it, then it’s part of the natural process and science should be strenuously investigating every instance of spontaneous remission to find out why it happened because it is no longer out of their area of study. So why aren’t they? Why are they so remiss in their obligation to the betterment of mankind?

If this stuff is natural, wouldn’t it be better to pursue that instead of simply looking at treatments so that people can be more than merely treated but cured?