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Question for atheists: What comments do you have on the few religious miracles that have not been explained?

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Walt O'Reagun Profile
Walt O'Reagun answered

LOL

The true irony and hypocrisy about miracles, is on the part of religious believers.

If you are a Christian - you credit miracles to your god.  But when presented with evidence of miracles performed in the name of other gods, you claim those are the work of Satan.  Or that your god did them, even though the person was calling on another god.  Or some other excuse to rationalize your religious beliefs.

On the other hand, the Atheist answer is much simpler.  Science just doesn't have an explanation for it, at this time.

Charles Davis Profile
Charles Davis answered

What miracles? I'll believe a miracle happened when I see God heal an amputee. Otherwise I've seen no miracles. However science is working on healing amputees, something God seems to have missed.

Didge Doo Profile
Didge Doo answered

You would need to be specific. It's common practice among religious people to label many unlikely outcomes as "miracles". So your "few religious miracles that have not been explained" doesn't really make a statement or ask a question: It's merely a vagary.

Call me Z Profile
Call me Z answered

In general, events cited as "miracles" among religious folk are simply accepted by the devout because it suits the purpose of their faith or -more sinister- meets the agenda of priests and clerics who seek control over them.

There are countless events in human history that defy explanation, crediting favored claims to one's god for lack of another answer is a choice, not proof. What of those "miracles" that were later explained rationally?

We must consider how many so-called miracles were proclaimed by people who lived in times when things like eclipses, diseases, lightning and floods were understood to be acts of divine anger or the wrath of demons, though such claims are just ridiculous to us now. To quote Robert G Ingersoll: "Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows".

Tris Fray Potter Profile

Everything had a scientific answer to it... Even if we have no idea what it is

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Tom  Jackson
Tom Jackson commented
So the existence of God does have a scientific explanation, but we just don't know it yet?

Can I quote you on that?
Darik Majoren
Darik Majoren commented
Thomas - We once thought illnesses caused by germs and viruses were really caused by demons . . . It WAS a supernatural phenomenon. When we moved forward and observed, recorded and hypothesized about such things, we made changes. How radical it was that surgeons and doctors actually started washing their hands . . . such a change to the mortality rate only to find that once technology caught up (Microscope) we confirmed the hypothesis . . .

In essence what once WAS deemed "Supernatural" was really natural . . . am I to believe you would still be seeking out prayer a few "Hail Mary's" to help with your common cold?
Darik Majoren Profile
Darik Majoren answered

"A miracle is simply a happening that has not been properly vetted out, as of yet. " - Dark Majinn

Those whom seek only to label it as a miracle aren't interested in the "Why's" . . EVEN if it means others might not suffer. Thank goodness those who were truly interested in "understanding" rather then embracing "Conformational bias" to reaffirm that current culture's Iron Age beliefs, looked beyond the concept of Supernatural.

It is why we moved from attributing illnesses and sicknesses with Demons, and incorporated such things as a "Sterile Environment" when working with the sick . . . Start washing your hands and the mortality rate goes up . . . We traded the natural (Germs and Viruses) for the Supernatural (Demons and Spirits) . . . 

Pray tell, what are the miracles you refer to?

Deston Elite Profile
Deston Elite answered

My comment: "Idk. I wish I knew but that doesn't mean that I have to believe in a god just because I don't know."

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