Was it a MIRACLE or just COINCIDENCE?

Question

---You happen to ALMOST get run over by a car--it comes to a screeching halt and you realize that it's so close to you that you could simply extend your hand and touch the hood

---A child is born paralyzed from the neck down due to the umbilical cord being wrapped around its neck twice----eight months later, the child makes a 360 recovery

--A women survives four heart attacks in a single year without any disfiguration in her body or joints

Answer 1

'COINCIDENCE' and natural way of life.

Answer 2

None of these is coincidence, in the proper meaning of the world. Neither are they verifiable as miracles.

In the first example, the explanation is simply chance. There was a chance the car could have gone further, inflicting injury. Had it been going slower and the driver seen the pedestrian earlier, no skidding may have occurred.

In the second, children, especially babies have remarkable healing potential. The injury wouldn't have been a complete sever of the spinal cord and the cells recover.

The third, heart attacks don't often result in disfiguration.

No miracles... just nature and chance.

Answer 3

I was nearly hit by a semi and I pushed my self off the hood, why? Because I have a brain, I utilized that brain to calculate how to survive the impending accident, I succeeded and calculated out a solution executed it and sat on the side of the road for an hour shivering with the knowledge I all most was splattered and dam thank full that I pay attention, much the same way any human would survive in an emergency, by using their brain. Any who would have prayed for the semi to stop would no longer be here, that should tell you alot!

Our bodies have evolved in a harsh world thus they can handle a fair amount with out failing, it is just nature.

Answer 4

Not a miracle and not a coincidence. Just because we don't still know why some things happen, doesn't allow you to call them miracles. We just don't know. Be patient. Eventually, SCIENCE will find an explanation.

Except for the first one, which may either be a coincidence, or an incredible reaction from the driver.

Answer 5

Actually none of those are even coincidences, they're just things that don't happen all that often. They're certainly not miracles. If Jesus turned water into wine, he did so against the laws of nature. Scientifically there is no reason for water to suddenly turn into wine. That makes it miraculous. Someone almost running you over is not miraculous.

Answer 6

Gods hand is on every thing I think the babys recovery is a merical I am sure much pray was involved. I recoverd from a bad car accident and put it down to pray and Gods hand. I had brain damage and the Dr's did not expect me to recover

Answer 7

could go either way

near misses happen all the time, if there is no scientific reason why the wreck shouldn't have happened then yes miracle

in both other cases if there is no medical reason why those things happened then again yes miracle

Answer 8

Statistically improbable, yet not impossible. Given an infinite amount of cases, anything in the realm of possibility can occur. Call it what you want.

Answer 9

The way you describe these instances, I have to believe they are miracles.
I Cr 13;8a
10-24-6

Answer 10

miracle, miracle, miracle! these incidences testify to the mercy of God.
to say it is coincidence is being terribly carnal.

Answer 11

Define miracle and coincidence...


I don't think that there is coincidence so I'd go to miracle....