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Miracles
- The Concept of miracles
- What is a miracle?
- The unexpected and
unusual manifestations of
the presence and power of
God - M.Cook
- Three Basic Attributes
- Against regular
experience - breaking
the laws of nature
- Has a purpose
and significance
- Possible to ascribe
religious
significance
- Against regular
experience - breaking
the laws of nature
- The unexpected and
unusual manifestations of
the presence and power of
God - M.Cook
- What is a miracle?
- Is the Evidence Reliable?
- David Hume
- A transgression of a
law of nature by a
particular violation of
the Deity
- Concentrated
on experience,
observation,
evidence and
probability
- Claimed that it was not reasonable to believe in the existence
of miracles because the evidence was totally unreliable
- Miracles are violations of the laws of nature
- Firm and unalterable experience has established these
- Improbable events need witnesses of greater reliability
- Miracles are improbable events
- Miracles need very strong evidence from witnesses
- Witnesses to miracles are invariably unreliable and their testimonies cannot be trusted
- Miracles do not occur
- Miracles do not occur
- Witnesses to miracles are invariably unreliable and their testimonies cannot be trusted
- Miracles need very strong evidence from witnesses
- Miracles are improbable events
- Improbable events need witnesses of greater reliability
- Firm and unalterable experience has established these
- Miracles are violations of the laws of nature
- Claimed that it was not reasonable to believe in the existence
of miracles because the evidence was totally unreliable
- Four reasons why
there was insufficient
evidence for miracles
- 1) Not enough reliable witnesses
- 2) Human nature wanted us to believe in miracles
- 3) Sources came from unreliable places
- 4) Miracles carried out by different Gods cancelled each other out
- 1) Not enough reliable witnesses
- Inconsistent Triad
- A) Miracles Occur B) Miracles are
claimed in all religions C) Religions claim
exclusivity
- If A) was accepted as true, then either B) or C)
can be true but not both. However the three claims
can be true if the occurrence of miracles within a
variety of religions is independent of claims made
by an religion to have exclusive possession of the
truth
- A) Miracles Occur B) Miracles are
claimed in all religions C) Religions claim
exclusivity
- The
definition is
problematic
as we are
not sure if
we know all
of the
natural laws
and
therefore
God may
not be
breaking
them
meaning
that miracles
do not occur
- Ambiguous Language,
he is not very descriptive
so can be interpreted in
many different ways
- Only religious believers see
miracles so that makes their
testimonies unreliable
- Miracles cancel each other out as they
can't be performed by many different
gods
- Miracles cancel each other out as they
can't be performed by many different
gods
- Only religious believers see
miracles so that makes their
testimonies unreliable
- Ambiguous Language,
he is not very descriptive
so can be interpreted in
many different ways
- A transgression of a
law of nature by a
particular violation of
the Deity
- Swinburne
- Three types of
historical evidence that
can be used to support
miralces
- Our memories
- The testimony of others
- The physical traces left behind by the event in question
- The physical traces left behind by the event in question
- The testimony of others
- Our memories
- Three types of
historical evidence that
can be used to support
miralces
- David Hume
- Do Miracles prove the existence of God?
- Swinburne suggests - If there is a God, one might well
expect him to make his presence known to man, not
merely through the over-all pattern of the universe in
which he placed them, but by dealing more intimately
and personally with them
- For those who do not believe, it is impossible for miracles to occur
- Peter Atkins - There is a sharp contrast between
the impenetrable prose of theological
comprehension, which is largely pretentious
gobbledegook and the shark, limpid explanations of
science
- Peter Atkins - There is a sharp contrast between
the impenetrable prose of theological
comprehension, which is largely pretentious
gobbledegook and the shark, limpid explanations of
science
- Miracles prove nothing convincingly, they neither
prove or disprove the existence of God. Neither
does science
- Swinburne suggests - If there is a God, one might well
expect him to make his presence known to man, not
merely through the over-all pattern of the universe in
which he placed them, but by dealing more intimately
and personally with them
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