Of Miracles

Hume infers that miracles are violations of nature, seeing as when you pray to God, you are asking him to violate the natural pattern of something. According to Hume, evidence favoring that a miracle is in fact a miracle will always be proven wrong by evidence of a natural law which has supposedly been violated. This is a very controversial statement seeing the multiple medical "miracles" that have been witnessed over the years (Malignant brain tumors suddenly disappearing, terminal illnesses letting people live years longer than they've been expected to, etc.). Then again, one could say all of those are explainable if examined scientifically, so that statement Hume makes is truly up in the air.