(May 31, 2013 at 3:04 pm)Consilius Wrote: Mothers survive cancer…teenagers get off drugs…kidnapped children are recovered.
While these can be explained away without saying "God did this",
Miracles sure have slipped a long way from what they used to be.
Seas used to part, men survived 3 days in a fish, virgin girls used to give birth, the sun stopped for 3 hours, holy people came out of their graves and walked around Jerusalem, women turned into salt, etc, etc.
Now a miracle is someone surviving cancer (with the help of modern medical science of course), someone getting off drugs, law enforcement recovering a kidnap victim...
I'm not impressed.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
