I asked atheists "How do you explain miracles?" and NONE of them could explain it! They said "They don't happen" or "You don't have proof a miracle has ever happened" or "That's all crap"--well those answers just prove to you that there is a God. They can't explain miracles! Don't say "Miracles don't happen"--because I've witnessed them before. I've seen God work and that is something atheists can't argue with.
2006-09-14 09:24:41 · 49 answers · asked by SummerSweetheart 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That IS the explanation, you thick little hypocrite. What's the answer to "Why does 1+1 equal 3?" The answer is, it DOESN'T. What's the answer to "How do you explain miracles?" The answer is they DON'T EXIST.
2006-09-14 09:30:14 · answer #1 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
You explain miracles with the explanation of God. However, to the atheist God is not an existent entity. So if something doesn't exist it cannot be an explanation. So to tell an atheist that miracles exist because God made them is not a valid argument to them.
Try a little hypothesizing... take the God factor out and ignore it for a small moment and then you try to explain the concept of miracles. Pretty hard to do isn't it when you don't have that standard answer you fall back on.
2006-09-14 09:44:37 · answer #2 · answered by genaddt 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What is your definition of a miracle?? It is not any "sadder" for us atheists to say that miracles do not happen because we have not witnessed them than it is for you to say that they do exist because you have witnessed them. Perhaps you think that what you have witnessed is a miracle because you deeply wanted to believe that it was. This argument would be much easier to debate against if you mentioned what the miracles were that you have witnessed. Please do not make such a broad and loaded statement that you have found something that atheists cannot argue with because a true atheist who is confident that God does not exist has reasons for their beliefs and can argue against anything regarding religion or gods existence. So perhaps you should not claim that atheists are said due to intellectual failure. Also, I am not sad, I am actually quite happy.
2006-09-17 13:35:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no argument to you saying that you have seen gods work. That is not empirical evidence. We cannot debate against people who have no data to debate. Show us one piece of datum. Give us an example of a miracle that is prove to have existed, (because it says so in the bible is not proof) then the atheist has the time to put the miracle to study and the scientific method. If nothing can be found after a reasonable time, then we can discuss miracles. But until science cannot answer a question there is no room to talk about hand of god stuff.
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2006-09-14 09:29:47 · answer #4 · answered by Bacchus 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Let's pin this down to a type of miracle; say, healing. A person is prayed for and has some healing occur. Perhaps it was "divine" in origin, or perhpas the mind has greater capacities than are typically expressed, and religion has simply provided a highly effective focus for that capacity. Now, that means we need to look into the neuropsychology generated by the religious state and see what it entails and how it its brought about. I have not seen any crdible documentaton of instantaneous healing, but I have seen anecdotes of people who otherwise were not responding beginning to heal after "mystical" intervention. But none of this , even if true, necessarily suggest anything outside of the nervous sytem of the patent. Sorry, no God necessary here either.
2006-09-14 09:38:31 · answer #5 · answered by neil s 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
By definition, miracles are a way of explaining something of which you have no explanation.
Just because you can't explain it, doesn't mean it was divine intervention. Miracles exist because "things" happen that you cannot explain.
It is a miracle that the universe exists. That is no doubt.
I just don't believe it was god that made it happen, i accept the fact that I don't have enough knowledge to explain it, and probably never will.
2006-09-14 09:30:51 · answer #6 · answered by nebulasleuth 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I see miracles happening all of the time in my life. I believe that miracles and science can co-exist. It is beyond my realm of thinking that something is not responsible for everything that happens. It is a miracle that scientists have been able to discover the things that they do, I believe their hands and minds are guided by a higher being (namely, God). The way that the human body works all together and that we were even able to figure it out.
I had Laser surgery on my eyes and where I once was almost blind, now I see perfectly. To me, that is a miracle in itself. I could go on all day, but that is all I am going to say for now.
2006-09-14 09:37:45 · answer #7 · answered by Donna P 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Could you be specific about these 'miracles'?
Here's the deal...if you want use a specific artifact or instance in time to prove or refute an idea....then you have to bring the proof so all of us "idiots" can understand or as you say, "believe".
You're calling me an idiot because I dont understand your argument for or against something you brought up.
2006-09-14 09:35:33 · answer #8 · answered by rkalch 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Just because you say "Miracles happen" don't make it so; and failing to offer any concrete examples of things happening that defy logical explanation (i.e.; miracles) doesn't help your case at all.
Here's a little experiment, sweetie: take your last post; and every time you see the word "miracles", replace it with the word "magic"....
Now you see why we disregard your "miracles"....
2006-09-14 09:34:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Reported: Not a question or Answer.
Btw, maybe atheists don't accept what you claim to be a miracle is a miracle.
2006-09-14 09:28:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋