(July 26, 2017 at 6:51 pm)chimp3 Wrote: To the pragmatist "extraordinary claim" does not mean "simply amazing" or "awesome". The phrase , as used in the thread title, refers to the concept expressed as Occam's Razor. We have no evidence that people can levitate and disappear above the clouds. We have no knowledge of any physical process that makes such an event possible. A claim that states "Person A" physically rose into the sky (without a JATO) is extraordinary. That claim demands not only evidence the event occurred but also an extraordinary overturning of the known laws of physics and biology. The OP is twisting the meaning of "extraordinary" the way that I.D.iots twist the word "theory".
This has nothing to do with Occam's Razor.
Such events do not require "overturning of the known laws of physics and biology". As I said in the OP, a miracle is a physical event that has supernatural causation rather than natural. Nothing is overturned, suspended, or broken--a cause is simply inserted.