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tell us about how miracles are viewed in your tradition. what place do miracles hold in your faith, in your religion, in your relationship with the Divine, in your life.
and if miracles are not part of your faith tradition, not part of your life, why not? what are your views on miracles and why do you reject miracles?
tell us about how miracles are viewed in your tradition. what place do miracles hold in your faith, in your religion, in your relationship with the Divine, in your life.
and if miracles are not part of your faith tradition, not part of your life, why not? what are your views on miracles and why do you reject miracles?
since this thread topic is about how you view miracles, then it is your definition in your life in your faith tradition.
good question.
If you consider miracles as someone winning the lottery, or unusual occurrences, then I do not reject miracles because they obviously happen. If you consider miracles as some divine supernatural force affecting our natural world, then I have seen no evidence to give me reason to believe that these occur and thereby have no reason to accept them. But, it is an interesting topic.
If you consider miracles as someone winning the lottery, or unusual occurrences, then I do not reject miracles because they obviously happen. If you consider miracles as some divine supernatural force affecting our natural world, then I have seen no evidence to give me reason to believe that these occur and thereby have no reason to accept them. But, it is an interesting topic.
Have you heard of the Improbability Principle? I listened to a podcast about it that was really interesting.
In The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anything but. In fact, they’re commonplace. Not only that, we should all expect to experience a miracle roughly once every month.
In fact, we should expect coincidences to happen. One of the key strands of the principle is the law of truly large numbers. This law says that given enough opportunities, we should expect a specified event to happen, no matter how unlikely it may be at each opportunity. Sometimes, though, when there are really many opportunities, it can look as if there are only relatively few. This misperception leads us to grossly underestimate the probability of an event: we think something is incredibly unlikely, when it's actually very likely, perhaps almost certain.
If you're talking about a dead person getting up and walking and talking, nope--never gonna happen. But anything where the odds are extremely rare, sure--you know, "It's a miracle he showed up. I heard his car broke down 20 miles from here."
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