RE: Miracle
August 10, 2015 at 6:10 am
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2015 at 6:11 am by robvalue.)
Calling something a miracle, supernatural, magic, anything like this, is always an argument from ignorance.
It's saying, "I don't find any of the standard explanations for this event, if there are any, satisfactory. I also believe that no explanations will ever be forthcoming at any point in the future that I will find satisfactory. So since I've ruled all those out somehow, that leaves magic/miracles."
Or to put it another way, it's setting your belief at "magic" then holding onto it until you are proved wrong. Either way, it's a hopelessly flawed way of going about things. No one ever learns anything or improves understanding this way.
It's saying, "I don't find any of the standard explanations for this event, if there are any, satisfactory. I also believe that no explanations will ever be forthcoming at any point in the future that I will find satisfactory. So since I've ruled all those out somehow, that leaves magic/miracles."
Or to put it another way, it's setting your belief at "magic" then holding onto it until you are proved wrong. Either way, it's a hopelessly flawed way of going about things. No one ever learns anything or improves understanding this way.
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