(September 20, 2010 at 1:12 pm)bucky Wrote: As a christian, this comment is only about christianity and not religion in general.Can't accept that Bucky, it isn't rational at all. There is no law of logic that gets you from god exists, therefore miracles happen or even can happen. You need to show a causal link.
This is my thinking. If there is a God who can create physics just by saying it. There is no reason to believe that miracles can not happen. The power is is there for it.
If God does not exist, yes clearly miracles cant happen.
But if God does exist and has revealed himself through the bible. Which you can find a lot of in the new testament about miracles and healings, and even commandents to christians to go out and heal. Then yes miracles are perfectly rational.
but obviously it all hinges on the does God exist bit. Which is for you to decide.
Then if you can show that, you then need to demonstrate how god would interact with a physical and finite universe, when god is defined as immaterial and infinite.
Otherwise the claims of miracles can be reduced to mere mystcism and magic. To which there is no evidence at all and plenty of evidence of fakery.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
