Miracles

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AQA definition
a violation of natural law with religious significance
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Hume's definition
'a transgression of the the laws of nation by a particular volition of a deity'
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Swinburne's definition
'if God intervenes in natural order to make a feather land here rather than there for no deep climate reason, this would not naturally be described a miracle'
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Brian Davis
'God is as present in what is not miraculous as the miraculous'
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John Hick
'we can declare a priori, that there are no miracles' because natural laws do not exist
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Placebo effect
willing something to happen
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Quantum mechanics
a single atom moving out of place could create the appearance of a miracle
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Hume's critique of miracles
not enough witnesses, ignorant nations, too many different miracles, biased (willing to suspend belief)
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Brian Davies
walking on the moon would have seemed like a miracle a hundred years ago
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Richard Swinburne supports miracles
our memories, testimony of others, and physical traces
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Nelson Pike
'God is outside space and time'
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Maurice Wiles
God encompasses the world as a whole, not interfering in natural order
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Richard Swinburne
'time does not effect God' & miracles prove agents other than humans
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Keith Ward
God only performs miracles to build faith
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R. F. Holland
'a coincidence can be taken religiously as a sign and called a miracle'
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David Hume
'nothing can be esteemed a miracle if it happens in the common course of nature'
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Nebraska Choir
Peter Vardy uses the example where everyone was at least 15 minutes late to practice
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Paul Tillich
'miracles are first of all events which are astonishing'
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Hume's definition

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'a transgression of the the laws of nation by a particular volition of a deity'

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Swinburne's definition

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Brian Davis

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John Hick

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