A question for all materialists, atheists, and agnostics on miracles?

Question

I have seen miracles. Big ones, like people who have been healed of diabetes, cancer and tumors dissolving. I have seen my wife’s back heal instantly before my eyes. These can be empirically documented simply by going to the doctor’s office and picking up some files, and having the people take a follow up exam. Would medical documentation in any way change your belief about God’s nonexistence?

Answer 1

If you have proof of faith healing, you can win $1,000,000 from James Randi at www.randi.org ... it's that simple.

Nevermind the fact that not a single person has ever been able to prove it. But there are a million bones waiting for you if you can.

Answer 2

Perhaps-But I've seen these so called miracles before and they did not last very long -Secondly I've seen Xango which is a natural product that is high in antioxidants do the same thing-it cured my grandfathers diabetes and made my grandmothers cancerous tumor almost non-existent...But as far as miracles go -How come your god doesn't heal everyone ??I've seen people spend thousands at these faith healers and have had nothing happen except go bankrupt..This and the way people try to push their religion on me is why I'm Agnostic-plus I give God more credit than that..I think God is way too complicated to try to comprehend..So some people made up a story thousands of years ago to try to explain the word around them that they did not understand..

Answer 3

There are COUNTLESS things that people used to consider miracles performed on account of direct intervention of "god," and are now explained. Science will progress, and more seemingly miraculous things will be explained.

Perhaps the fact that we only use about 10% of our brains has something to do with a lot of things? Placebo effect?Mind over matter perhaps? There are plenty of phenomena, and we will not attempt to say we know something for certain, until it can be proven.

We are skeptics by nature. It is much more satisfying to work hard to figure something out, rather than take the easy way out, and declare something miraculous,etc.

My token of appreciation regarding your wife's healing. It is a miracle in a sense, but that sense does not include direct intervention from a divine being in my opinion. Appreciate it, but don't lose your mind over it.

Answer 4

I have seen "Miracles" all the time, I work at a hospital. but why would God allow Muslims, Buddhists, Hindu's ect to have a miracle? I mean if you think about it all it does is make them stronger in their faith for what they believe. What is the point of that? Or does it seem more logical that sometimes things happen...and the human body has the capability to heal itself. And that a miracle is only the perspective of one person.

Answer 5

Reasoned arguments, yet in the previous i have not heard any that confident me of God's existance and that i will't imagine there are any. Seeing angels ought to truthfully no longer convince me of something, i should be constructive to have hallucinations and spot a accepted practitioner. In case of "miracles" i should be constructive that there is a life like clarification for it and that i ought to check out to locate it, that I actually have hallucinations or someone performs a trick. about own journey i will claim merely an identical like about the angels and miracles.

Answer 6

When My grandfather had open heart surgery my entire family thought it was a miracle but I just saw it as a direct result of what a doctor did. If he hadn't have gone to the hospital he would have died...no miracle there.

Answer 7

I'm a devoted Christian but most miracles are just medical mysteries – not an act of God. Sorry to burst your bubble but doctors can't even figure out the common cold or auto-immune diseases.

Answer 8

And these miraculous healing came about how? Without a higher power of energies, where does the healing energy come from? As a human being your creative powers are limited by your material focus.

Answer 9

Sure, let's see the documentation. Proof of a miracle would constitute proof of some form of deity or unexplained scientific principle. If it sufficiently violated known scientific theory, it would be evidence of a deity moreso than of an unexplained scientific principle.

So, where's the documentation?

Answer 10

Not at all. What you call "miraculous" events I call natural events which don't fit in our current scientific paradigm. In short, I accept the reality of all sorts of paranormal phenomena -- in this case, psychogenetic healing -- but that doesn't lead me to believe in the God of traditional theism. It leads me to believe that our present scientific paradigm is inadequate. And in fact, a more adequate paradigm is now emerging at the edges -- involving quantum theory, neuroscience, systems theory, and the like.

Quite likely Jesus was simply an evolutionary freak -- a human being with exceptional paranormal powers, who experienced and utilized them in accordance with the religious milieu in which he was born.