(March 11, 2016 at 11:19 am)Stimbo Wrote: It's not our job to prove something is not a miracle. It's your job to demonstrate that it is. The very fact that you're quibbling over definitions and the burden of proof shows that on some level you recognise the dearth of miracles available to examine.
So, are you not taking the positive position that miracles do not exist--you are just saying that there is no evidence for them. Others say there is evidence for them.
We look at each one and assign probability and when we do that, then is seems likely that miracles have happened.
I think one of your problems is frequency. You can't use frequency as a probability theory. Scientist are looking for infrequent events all the time. Secondly, we are not talking about random events--we are talking about an event caused by a supernatural free agent. In such a case, an event might be caused precisely because it is infrequent.
