(October 10, 2018 at 3:59 pm)SteveII Wrote: I'm not redefining anything. That is the definition.Learning more about the laws of nature isnt an option, right? Throwing our hands up in the air, dropping to our knees shouting "goddidit" is, right?
The best way is context. Events contrary to what we know about the laws of nature are more likely miracles when there is a context that suggest a supernatural cause.
Also.....please continue to the next remark.
(October 10, 2018 at 3:59 pm)SteveII Wrote: For example, if Jesus tells a crippled man from birth to stand up, take up his mat and walk, that would seem more likely a miracle than not.Bolding mine: Please call in again after you have demonstrated that something like this ever happened.
(October 10, 2018 at 3:59 pm)SteveII Wrote: If a whole church is praying for a little boy (like my brother-in-law) who had a brain tumor and on the morning of his surgery he had a CT scan for the surgeon to map his cuts, there was no tumor. Never came back. That might be a miracle.It might as well be "i dont know", and then pulling "miracle" right out of your ass. Your method fails.
Too bad not enough churches fulla people (being full of it) are praying for all those starving kids in Africa. If i ever encounter such a scenario like you did, i can only hope its no miracle and there is no god who is so capricious as you suggest.
(October 10, 2018 at 3:59 pm)SteveII Wrote: If someone looses their car keys and prays and then finds them. Probably not.Too bad, god just wanted to help by makig this guy find his car keys. Your "method" to determine miracles failed.......again.
(October 10, 2018 at 3:59 pm)SteveII Wrote: Looking through a microscope at a some sub-atomic particle that isn't behaving as expected would never be thought of as a miracle--there is no context to think that it would be.Oh, this time its not "miracle" but "i dont know"? Interesting.
tl;dr: please look up "argument from ignorance", because thats all it is you are preaching here: "I dont know, therefore miracle/god/supernatural/pink unicorn".
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