(December 3, 2014 at 12:30 am)Jhayward Wrote: How can we assume that every miracle ever reported has some sort of natural origin?
Consider the set of everything that's ever happened. Every event. Either we know what caused the event or we don't. Now, consider the subset of events consisting of events that we know the cause of. For any individual event in this subset, either we know that it had all natural causes or we know they it at least one super-natural cause.
Wouldn't you know, it turns out that the set of events that we know had all natural causes is nearly infinite, and the set of events we know have at least one supernatural cause is... wait for it... empty.
This does NOT logically, formally prove that every event has a natural cause, but it's hella suggestive of such, to the point that to *not* assume this is... well, silly is a nice word. Extraordinary claims. Not even ordinary proof.
TL;DR: Answer: to not assume this is silly
*disclaimer: I'm logico-freestylin' here. Analyze deeply at own risk.
