Miracles
- Created by: GKaner
- Created on: 13-03-17 21:02
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- Miracles
- Christianity
- Only God can perform miracles, though it can be through a person
- Hinduism
- If one gains enough powerful karma they may eventually gain some spiritual power
- Birth of Krishna, he agreed to be born on Earth to defeat evil and all efforts to stop this were thwarted
- Islam
- Allah performed miracles through the prophets to prove they were chosen
- Muhammed's Heart, his chest was opened and a blood clot removed
- Arguments Against
- There can never be enough evidence
- The laws of nature have been witnessed for thousands of years
- For a miracle to be proved it must have enough to outweigh the evidence of the laws of nature, which is impossible
- By Hume's argument, planes cannot be accepted as no one saw flight before the 1930s
- The laws of nature have been witnessed for thousands of years
- Witnesses are unreliable
- Religions rely on miracles as evidence, and they cannot all be right and so they cancel each other out
- Witnesses are biased as they want miracles to be real to back their beliefs
- Founders of religion warn against putting too much faith in miracles, and they are investigated before being accepted
- There can never be enough evidence
- Christianity
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