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David Hume’s Anti-Miracles Argument Is Poor
David Hume, as you know, wrote on miracles. He didn't like them. Which is to say, he didn't believe them. But then Hume didn't believe we could know any cause.…
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Solzhenitsyn, Communism, Miracles & The Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy
Words and phrases can drift over time, as you all know, sometimes coming to mean even the opposite of their original definition. Like awful, meaning first something worthy of awe,…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: God Alone Works Miracles
Previous post. If you think not, try it yourself. THAT GOD ALONE WORKS MIRACLES 1 It can be shown from the foregoing that God alone can work miracles. 2 In…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: On Miracles
Previous post. It's a miracle! ON MIRACLES 1 Things that are at times divinely accomplished, apart from the generally established order in things, are customarily called miracles; for we admire…
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Science Is Magic & Miracles Aren’t
What is it a witch is doing when she mixes up some foul concoction, or lights a black candle, or casts a spell? I am not asking what her intent…
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The Why & Frequency Of Miracles: Shapiro’s The Miracle Myth Reviewed — Part IV
Read Part I, II, III. MOTIVE That miracles have supernatural origins is true by definition (see below, in PROBABILITY). Miracles, like all events, must have causes, and cause has motive…
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Strobel’s The Case for Miracles Reviewed
We earlier did Strobel's press conference. I won't repeat details of that here, which is concerned solely with the book. Strobel sticks with the formula that brought him to the…
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Lee Strobel Asks, “Are Miracles Real & Still Happening?”
Lee Strobel is best known for his book The Case for Christ, which details his immense effort to prove Jesus was not the Son of God. He failed. And he…