Monday, April 21, 2008

Hume: Miracles

Hume defines a miracle as: "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent."

Hume's definition means, that God can break his own rules in nature. But why would God break his own rules that he created himself? Why would he let something slide and make an exception, it would make him just as human as anyone else then. Simply, miracles don't exist, the believer most likely experienced something overwhelming, or storytelling a miracle severely mutilated down along the lines of communication. Furthermore some of the miracles, actually all of them are scientifically impossible or have some sort of thorn in the side of the story that seems far from ever being true.

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