(February 21, 2021 at 1:07 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(February 21, 2021 at 1:00 pm)Brian37 Wrote: The folks who invoke that word are not using it the way you are defining it. Most whom use this word mean it to be a god intervening.
It is the same as when the layperson doesn't know the meaning of "theory" in science and try to equate it to a mere guess.
If it is just "improbable" or "amazing" then just use those words. "Miracle" for me has simply too much superstitious baggage to be considered a valid explanation. It is intellectual laziness. Otherwise call it a "miracle" if it crashes and half survive and half die.
Conditions of the pilots training and the redundancy built into the plane's design are why they landed safely. It was not a "miracle".
A "miracle" would be if the plane went into helicopter hover when the plane isn't designed to hover. THAT would be a "miracle".
"Miracle" is a nonsense word. It is an an utterance after having an "oh shit" moment and being happy you didn't die. It isn't a word that explains anything. NTSB will investigate and find the answers.
You don't know how people are using the word.
And how you understand it isn't the only way people use it.
Not the point. I wouldn't assume everyone who uses isn't chalking it up to a magic sky daddy.
Even if one is arguing your usage, it is still intellectual laziness. The real answers are going to be found in the NTSB investigation. "Miracle" isn't an explanation. It is a word used as an emotional reaction to stress and surviving that stress.
If I had been on that plane, I damned sure would have been freaking out and shitting my pants. Just mere turbulence scares the shit out of me. But I would just simply say, "glad I didn't die" and be extremely happy I didn't die. But that is how I would put it. That is simply one word I hate hearing being used after such events.
