That which has a divine cause, not that which a human person fails to understand It dosent matter how, simply that God caused it
Those which nature could not cause, those which nature could do but not in the conventional order Those which nature could do
A violoation of the Laws of Nature
Investiating miracles, evidence can be collected - Laws of nature appear to be fixed and unvarying Miracles appear to violate laws of nature - it is more probable that the laaw is incorrect
Dies in battle because God rejects Him (1 samual 31) In juish scripture God is God of Isreal in the New testmen God acts throughJesus to save all
Examples of how we cannot comprehend the mind and logic of God
Soul Making theodicy - epistemic distance, we craft our soul and grow closer to God
THe fate of our soul is decied by our responses to evil and our actions in this life
We could use Swinburne's phone box argument - people fail to recognise miracles when they come to them
God does act today, the great stories of Miracles were merely the righters way of experssing the eternal reality That God acted and sustained the world, subseuqently its not the exact reality of the miracle, but its symbolic message
Argument 2 - Practical argumant - Lack of convincing testimony from educated people Only haaped to ignorant and Baberous people
A countries early history is full of tales but these seem to disapeer as the country progresses Contradictory miracles occur in different religions
(unlikley dosent meen certain) and looking at the scientifi method we seek to dispove Poor inductive argumant - uniform experience that amounts to a proof - argues against this inhis book Treatise on Human Nature
'An ocurence of a non repeatable counter instance to a Law of nature' Yes it dosent fit with nature- however it dosent prove inaccuracy and cannot define a new law
(Uneducated and Narnerous people) very elitest and narrow minded view - spiruttualy and emotionaly intelligent Leading scientific minds agree that miracles at lurdes are beyond thier explenation
69th case at Lurdes - Danila castelli cured of her - spontaneous and severe hyperactive blood preasure - and related problems
Miracles tend to happen that demonstrate god's grace and result in some sourt of healing Dosent cancell them out - God cares for all independent of religion
A Pluralist The same ultimate reality, experinced and interpreted through their subculture
4 kinds of Hystorical evidence 1Memories 2Testimony 3Physical traces 4Understanding of modern science DIfferent sources should be consistent - Value placed should be based on empirical evidence - avoid rejection
Due to the probabalstic nature of Laws (indeterministic quantaum level) 'Gods intervention will simply be a matter of inclining things to behave on a certain occasion in this way rather than that
Contingency - series of fortunate events (acting through nature) to make the unlikely but possible occur Little boy and his bike stuck on the railway track (driver fainted due to blood clot)
People focus to much on the extrodinary aspect Instead they should be foccusing on the fact that it is a sign from God
Miracles are astonashing (without contradicting the rational stucture of reality) Miracles point to the mysterty of being (Revelatory) - Exstatic experiences
Laws probabalistic - Red grain of sand on a beach that appears completely yellow
Constant act of sustainmant - no laws, only percieved patterns = whole universe is a single creative act Gods plan, its also Arastotelian thought - also links well to boetheus, seeing it all as one point etc
Einstein's Law of general relativity replaced isaac Neutons which Hume would hvave learnt
1 Cornithisnas 15;14 - 'and if christ has not been raised, then our proclaimation has been in Vein and your faith has been in Vain
They are deluded and seeking publicity or something
People do have strange experiences - psychological explenation - Not God We can axpect people to have coincidle events that they attribute to special sugnificance - Lurdes = placebo
He could act through them in unpredictable circumstances, it is totaly conceivable that God will act in unpradictable ways
A good simple theory built on a few predicates will describe a large range of Phenomena and will make sense
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