(September 8, 2015 at 11:51 am)Thena323 Wrote:(September 8, 2015 at 11:25 am)Pyrrho Wrote: I have seen a magician "saw a lady in half." Yet I have not even the slightest temptation to believe that a miracle occurred.That's why I said it would take a big fuggin' miracle to convince me. Something indisputable. We are talking hypotheticals here.
My question for you is this: how are you going to know that the "miracle" you witness isn't just a trick, a con job, to sucker you into believing some drivel?
Also, given the history of people "lying for a worthy cause," there are countless Christians who would be ready to do such a thing, if they were skilled enough to do it.
The question is, how could it possibly be indisputable? The essence of a trick is that it looks real. If it does not look real, it is not really tricking anyone.
Here is something that is on a grand scale:
Of course, it was an act. But the point is, that tricks can be very, very impressive, and they can involve very large objects. But the trick looks the same as a miracle.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.