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Author Topic:   A Miracle by Definition
nator
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Message 7 of 38 (372413)
12-27-2006 9:26 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Phat
12-26-2006 11:29 PM


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If an individual had massive cancer in their body and a month or two later the Doctor found no cancer whatsoever, would this qualify as potential divine intervention?
I don't se how. I think it would be classified as a complete remission of unknown origin.
Calling it anything else is just a God of the Gaps explanation.
Just because we don't understand why something happened doesn't mean that anything woo-woo is going on.
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Is everything in life bound to happen eventually according to the laws of statistical improbability and probability?
To me, a miracle is something that happens contrary to natural law.
Finding the winning powerball ticket in the gutter is not a miracle, it is just a very improbable natural event.

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