(October 26, 2009 at 8:43 am)amw79 Wrote: Apologies, I wasn't clear in my comment, I know you reserved judgement on solarwave's "miracle"; however the comment was more generally aimed to make the point that if one believes in miracles, a) you'll start looking for them where its not necessary and another explanation will suffice, and b) even if no explanation is available - it's illogical to posit an explanation which will yield no evidence, and cannot itself be explained.
Thanks for the clarification. I disagree with your conclusions though. Regarding a), Just because one's presuppositions allows for miracles does not mean that one automatically begins at miracles for the explanation of everything. It is not true of me, I know. Regarding b), that seems to me just a statement of your presupposition against miracles.
Say, for example, God really did, in fact, perform a miracle in Solarwave's friend's life. Let's say that is the absolute truth, i.e., what really and truly happened. You would never accept that based on your presupposition and no matter what explanation you came up with as a "possibility" it would not be the truth. So in this way, your presuppositions may very well limit you in your quest for real (actual/truthful) answers in life.
