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A miracle is an event attributed to a supernatural agent even if there is a naturalistic explanation for the event.
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Is watching an amputated limb regrow proof of the supernatural?
However, any event that can be observed systematically is ipso facto subject to the natural sciences, so the definition itself precludes the existence of miracles. …
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Why do we need repetitive demonstration to accept miracles happening?
So the difficulty here is that when we talk about 'miracles' or any other metaphysical event, we generally fail to make that distinction. … People who believe in miracles generally want to extend their belief in singular historical events to a belief in a class of such events (the illicit minor fallacy); people who pooh-pooh miracles generally …
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Can Bayes' theorem be used non-fallaciously to argue for miracles?
Hume is effectively saying:
I think the probability of miracles occurring is really low (i.e., the
model I assume is that miracles do not exist), and I think the
probability of people being inaccurate … or mistaken is reasonably high
(the observation quality is questionable), so I'd need a whole
lot of such observations to reject the model and accept miracles
as true. …
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