For those who don't believe in a Supreme Being how do you account for miracles?

Question

Many miracles happen on a daily basis. People that have terminal cancer suddenly are cured, the SCUD Missiles fired by Sadaam into Israel did not kill a single person even though one destroyed an apartment building but no one was home when it landed, many people who are Catholic report miraculous events, and my own birth is a miracle. One great great grandfather was hurriedly married to a young girl in 1916. Her Rabbi and parents asked the girl to accept a boy she never saw before and marry him. She did. That night she got pregnant with two twin boys; one of whom became my great grandfather. The next day he left for the German Front during WWI because he was a soldier. He never returned alive. It was a personal miracle to me that he managed to impregnate her. The vigorous return of Religion in Russia after decades of repression under an Athiestic Communistic regime is a miracle in itself. If you don't believe than why is Religion so resilient?

Ok have to shut off my computer for a while because the Sabbath is about to start (well it actually started lol lol). I'll probably turn it on again a little later after my mom's wonderful dinner. Anyway the parting of the Sea of Reeds (Red Sea) was witnessed by thousands of people. So was the giving of the Law to the people from Mt. Sinai by Moses. The people saw a cloud descend from the mountain and heard the voice of the Almighty. So those of you "rationalists" here are thousands of people who actually witnessed these events. I don't think that the Almighty needs to perform "magic tricks" just so that some stubborn people who don't believe will be convinced. I personally believe and use prayer to communicate with G-d. Ok see all of you later.

Answer 1

Sorry, but I'm not seeing these as miracles. Sure, it's easy for you to say that there are miracles happening all around us, but that doesn't mean a higher power is at work. Personally, I need to see a miracle for myself before I can believe. I want to see a guy parting the red sea . . I want to see a person rise from the dead . . . but I haven't.

Answer 2

Random events. When they go your way you give god the credit. When they don't you just say how sad.

The thing is they always break down when you have a proper control group to compare them with. Here is a great study on the power of prayer: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/health/31pray.html?ex=1301461200&en=4acf338be4900000&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

As you can see it doesn't work. There may have been individual things that you would have called miracles, but they happened at the same rate without prayer as with it.

Answer 3

You have failed to mention anything that sounds remotely like a miracle. People die from cancer every day but some people beat it even without treatment. There are medical reasons for this. your great great grandmother getting knocked up her first time is so not a miracle and happens to teenage girls quite frequently. The people you see healed on TV are all fake, as fake as pro wrestling.
I went to churches 5 times a week for 18 years, Ive seen people pray for miracles until the moment they died and have never ever seen a miracle from God. I have seen miracles of modern science, miracles of modern medicine, Ive seen sheer luck but never anything that was a result of divine intervention.

Answer 4

You obviously have a very low threshold of gullibility.

Don't go to any magic shows - you'll never get out alive.

We have this thing around here, where they select 6 random numbers, and whoever guesses the numbers wins millions. And guess what - somebody guesses them all exactly! Every week!

What are the chances of that?! It has to be a miracle!

CD

Answer 5

By denying their existence: not in the sense that the reported phenomena don't sometimes happen, but in the sense that they are simply not exceptions to the rules, although it may appear that they are exceptions to the KNOWN rules. As for the resurgence of religion in Russia, that proves nothing beyond that people like their belief in superstitious nonsense.

Answer 6

Miracle is just another word for coincidence. The fact that writings have been found (bible) that describe extraordinary events, doesn't mean it is true. Perhaps it was someones ghost stories long ago, perhaps it was a schizophrenics thoughts.

Answer 7

Not one thing you mentioned is a miracle to me. Fortuitous perhaps, but not miracles. For me to believe that there is a god that can do anything, those SCUDs would have never been fired, and your grandfather would have never needed to go to war.

Answer 8

No such thing as miracles, sweetie.

I know someone with terminal lung cancer who was "miraculously" cured. They cut her open to do a lung transplant, and viola, she had healthy lungs. The cancer was gone. Miracle? No. Hospital error. Her charts had been mixed up with someone else (who actually had lung cancer but was given a clean bill of health). She sued and won.

I imagine somewhere there is someone like you who only knows half the story, claiming that God healed this woman.

Answer 9

so when you say that some people who have cancer cure like that, what do you really mean??? that your god chooses to cure some??? and why not all???
i have been in a hospital with a lot of cancer patients around and i would have loved to see you trying to explain them about those miracles.

Answer 10

it would have no more or less miraculous if you had not been born. if you really believe that God guides missiles you must believe that he wants most of them to be as deadly as the one that hit your grandfather. communism has proven more resilient than democracy and i suspect that atheism has been with us longer than religion, none of which proves anything one way or the other.