Miracles and Anti-supernaturalism

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Betty, that view puts us in the position of having to accept every claim, not just the specific theistic ones you want us to. I'll even leave aside the fact that a book from a christian apologist can hardly be considered an objective source of information, and just examine the consequences of what it asks us to do, and the only fair way to operate in this "we don't know everything and the universe is big, and therefore this miracle has a rational basis" mindset is to apply that to every claim: christian claims, muslim claims, hindu and norse claims, every religion, conspiracy theory and raving loon on the street corner. To ask us to accept that only christian miracles are possible is special pleading.

So now what we've got is a world in which we now have to accept a multitude of claims, many contradictory and many that contradict each other... there's absolutely nothing scientific or rational about that. And either way, we need to resolve the contradictions by way of narrowing down the claims made into a set of non-contradictory claims that best comport to the real universe.

How do we do that? Oh yes: evidence!

So, you're left with two choices: either you exist in a universe that makes absolutely no sense at all and certainly doesn't justify belief in any specific religion at all, or you use the actual scientific method to discover the things that actually are real. The latter necessarily means you need to discard this shoulder shrugging "hey, we don't know everything, so I've got to accept this as possible!" mentality.