QUESTION: You say there is no evidence for the existence of god but what about miracles?
ANSWER: There arc many people who believe that miracles arc proof of god’s existence. ‘We hear wild claims that a healing has taken place but we never seem to get independent testimony of this from a medical office or a doctor. ‘We hear second-hand reports that someone was miraculously saved from disaster but we never seem to get eye—witness accounts of what is supposed to have happened. ‘We hear rumors that prayer straightened a diseased body or strengthened a withered limb, but we never see X-rays or get comments from doctors or nurses to prove these rumors. Wild claims, second-hand reports and hearsay are no substitute for solid evidence and solid evidence of miracles is very rare. However, unusual and unexplained things sometimes do happen. But our inability to explain such things does not prove the existence of gods. It only proves that our knowledge is as yet incomplete. Before the development of modern medicine, when people didn’t know what caused sickness, they believed that god or the gods sent diseases as a punishment. Now we know what causes such things and when we get sick, we take medicine. In time when our knowledge of the world is more complete, we may find out what causes unexplored phenomena, just as we can now understand what causes disease.
ANSWER: There arc many people who believe that miracles arc proof of god’s existence. ‘We hear wild claims that a healing has taken place but we never seem to get independent testimony of this from a medical office or a doctor. ‘We hear second-hand reports that someone was miraculously saved from disaster but we never seem to get eye—witness accounts of what is supposed to have happened. ‘We hear rumors that prayer straightened a diseased body or strengthened a withered limb, but we never see X-rays or get comments from doctors or nurses to prove these rumors. Wild claims, second-hand reports and hearsay are no substitute for solid evidence and solid evidence of miracles is very rare. However, unusual and unexplained things sometimes do happen. But our inability to explain such things does not prove the existence of gods. It only proves that our knowledge is as yet incomplete. Before the development of modern medicine, when people didn’t know what caused sickness, they believed that god or the gods sent diseases as a punishment. Now we know what causes such things and when we get sick, we take medicine. In time when our knowledge of the world is more complete, we may find out what causes unexplored phenomena, just as we can now understand what causes disease.
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