Miracles
- Created by: Alice Harvey
- Created on: 16-01-13 13:17
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- Miracles
- Hume
- Miracles are violations of the laws of nature.
- A miracle is false unless the idea of the witnesses being wrong is more miraculous than the miracle itself.
- Probability Argument - Is it more likely that the miracle occurred or that the testimonies were wrong? Hume would say the witnesses being wrong is more likely.
- Swinburne
- Quantum Laws - our laws are based on probability. They are human concepts and so perhaps God can suspend these laws to allow miracles to occur.
- Ward
- disagrees with the term 'violations of the laws of nature' - sounds like there is something wrong with believeing in miracles
- Tillich
- Believes in miracles - says they are signs from God and should reveal something about him to the people.
- He says that miracles HAVE to violate the laws of nature to be out of the ordinary.
- Maurice Wiles
- He said that miracles would have to occur infrequently to avoid the laws of nature becoming meaningful, yet they are frequent.
- the pattern of occurring miracles is STRANGE
- Raised the question of THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
- Hume
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