You Can't Disprove a Miracle

[Rhondazvous]

You can’t argue with someone about what they have seen. . People see many things. The miracle is not in what a person sees but in their interpretation of what they saw. No one can deny that I saw a cross in the sky. But the part that can be argued is that that cross is a sign from god telling me to go to war. If people do not differentiate between the phenomenon and my interpretation of that phenomenon, then they will say that I saw a miracle.

As human beings we approach the phenomenal world with a paradigm. If we believe god exists, we will interpret everything we see with a theistic paradigm. If we don’t believe in god, we will interpret everything we see with an atheistic paradigm.

Now the atheistic paradigm says there are natural causes for all phenomenon because all phenomenon occurs in the natural universe. We look for the cause in the same universe with the phenomenon. Once a natural cause is identified, no further assumptions are necessary.

The theist, however, cannot stop there. He must say no that’s just the method my god chose to accomplish that. The assumption is that once someone says god did something, it’s not possible to prove that he did not do it.