RE: two scientific miracles puzzled me?
December 21, 2015 at 2:34 am
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2015 at 2:35 am by robvalue.)
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Even if someone knew something amazing, that doesn't demonstrate where they got the information from. The truth of one of their statements doesn't automatically make any further statements true. They must also demonstrate that they really did get the information the way they said.
The word "miracle" seems pretty meaningless to me. If an event is unexplained, then it is unexplained. That doesn't mean that anyone can insert their own explanation and claim it is true without evidence. That is called the argument from ignorance: claiming an explanation is true because no other explanation has yet been found. It's obviously flawed, because the argument "works" for any made-up magical explanation for the unexplained event. Religion thrives on gap filling knowledge with unfalsifiable statements.

Even if someone knew something amazing, that doesn't demonstrate where they got the information from. The truth of one of their statements doesn't automatically make any further statements true. They must also demonstrate that they really did get the information the way they said.
The word "miracle" seems pretty meaningless to me. If an event is unexplained, then it is unexplained. That doesn't mean that anyone can insert their own explanation and claim it is true without evidence. That is called the argument from ignorance: claiming an explanation is true because no other explanation has yet been found. It's obviously flawed, because the argument "works" for any made-up magical explanation for the unexplained event. Religion thrives on gap filling knowledge with unfalsifiable statements.
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