(December 7, 2014 at 3:15 pm)Heywood Wrote:(December 6, 2014 at 11:10 pm)Jenny A Wrote: 5. Miracle. --- Repeated clinical tests, minimum.
What we tend to get? Credulous eyewitnesses to things a magician might do on stage usually told third hand four centuries ago.
If a miracle becomes repeatable it ceases to be a miracle but rather an artifact of nature.
I disagree. A miracle is some supernatural event that demands a violation of the laws of nature regardless of whether it happens repeatedly or not.