Timeline for What should a rational person accept as a miracle?
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| Jul 15 at 18:01 | comment | added | Mike Song | I think, as a rational person, that "the world exists and not does not exist" is the greatest miracle that can only be accepted. | |
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| Jul 13, 2014 at 2:19 | comment | added | yters | Technically, consecration isn't miraculous, even though it is supernatural. I believe a miracle has to be a special event, not a routine event. Same with conception - a new being comes into existence every time, which is a supernatural event. However, that is not the same as a miracle. | |
| Oct 28, 2013 at 6:18 | answer | added | labreuer | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 1, 2013 at 17:17 | answer | added | Neil Meyer | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 17, 2012 at 16:05 | answer | added | Tames | timeline score: -2 | |
| Oct 8, 2011 at 17:08 | answer | added | Mozibur Ullah | timeline score: -2 | |
| Oct 1, 2011 at 10:31 | vote | accept | Saeed Neamati | ||
| Sep 25, 2011 at 12:28 | comment | added | Josh Peterson | I highly recommend that you read Miracles by C.S. Lewis. Lewis answers this exact question from a Christian perspective, yet he assumes the reader is initially skeptical of miracles. The book is very readable and relatively short (you could probably read it in a few days). | |
| Sep 22, 2011 at 1:31 | answer | added | Anixx | timeline score: -2 | |
| Aug 9, 2011 at 19:28 | answer | added | Mechanical snail | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 2, 2011 at 11:27 | comment | added | Peter Turner | It's because they aren't dead, if a dead priest consecrated a host, you can bet they'd be fast tracked for sainthood. But, I get your last point, the whole reason for miracles is to assist belief in unexplainable ways - not to take away from our freewill. | |
| Aug 2, 2011 at 4:28 | comment | added | user179700 | @Peter Yes and no. As every priest invoking this presumed miracle isn’t beatified, clearly even the Catholic Church is drawing some distinction. One could equivocate to the point of saying anything that happens is miraculous, but then one hasn’t really said much of anything. In short, if there is common evidence of miracles it shouldn’t be difficult to actually demonstrate that something is going on. | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 23:11 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackPhilosophy/status/98168889527123968 | ||
| Aug 1, 2011 at 22:02 | answer | added | Peter Turner | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 21:51 | comment | added | Peter Turner | @user, miracles don't have to be uncommon to be miraculous. We Catholics consider a miracle to happen every time the Lord appears to us as bread and wine. An event which likely is happening all around the world at every minute of the day several times over. | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 16:06 | answer | added | Green Noob | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 13:39 | answer | added | Chad | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 11:32 | answer | added | WinW | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 4:45 | comment | added | stoicfury | Can you provide the definition of "miracle" in the sense that you are using here? | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 4:22 | comment | added | user179700 | Dead people come back to life all the time. Raising the dead is simply uncommon, not miraculous. What would be miraculous would be raising the long dead. | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 3:08 | answer | added | Rex Kerr | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jul 31, 2011 at 18:00 | answer | added | davidlowryduda | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 31, 2011 at 1:03 | answer | added | Joseph Weissman♦ | timeline score: 32 | |
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| Jul 30, 2011 at 20:01 | history | closed | Joseph Weissman♦ | not constructive | |
| Jul 30, 2011 at 18:29 | history | asked | Saeed Neamati | CC BY-SA 3.0 |