(October 27, 2013 at 8:56 am)bennyboy Wrote: Well, if you think about it, all our experiences are mediated by the mind, and the mind is malleable.
If you're in a isolation chamber, you will have all kinds of wild and convincing visions: hallucinations, and probably aural hallucinations. If they affect your mood (or relieve pain), you are likely to call them a miracle.
I'm curious why miracles are limited to things that COULD be explained in other ways: relieved pain, mass hallucinations, etc. Why doesn't God make a 1000-foot-tall cherry tree suddenly appear on top of Everest, just for giggles? Now THAT would be a miracle.
He could, but he's too busy making babies whose skin falls off to teach us, um, to teach us, ah, ... well, something.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
