Professor Charles Coulson was such a thinker:.
"When we come to the scientifically.
unknown, our correct policy is not to.
rejoice because we have found God; it.
is to become better Scientists.".
The most significant rebuff to belief in miracles came from David Hume. Hume dedicated much of his work to the understanding of miracles, Hume believed, and showed that Miracles were, relatively a logical impossibility. Hume also said that because miracles are scientifically impossible, then it is impossible to believe anyone who claims to have witnessed such an extraordinary event, he then made an additional four points.
1) In all History there are not a sufficient number of people who have witnessed a miracle who have good sense, education and learning to confidently say that these so called miracles were not delusions within themselves. In other words people who believe in miracles are superstitious not scientific.
2) People believe in Miracles because they want to believe in Miracles. .
3) Belief in miracles results from ignorance about how the world actually works.
4) All Gods cannot be the true God therefore there are no Gods, they are all simply Religious Propaganda.
"A miracle is a violation of the laws.
of nature the proof against a miracle is.
as entire as any argument from experience.
can possible be imagined." (D.Hume).
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Hume's arguments are strong, but they are not watertight, and his points may be have incredible force and objection, but they still have to be reckoned with. The opposite, but still very important view of miracles, is the Christian view. Christians believe that God is Omnipotent and omni benevolent and miracles occur as an "act of god" and in some way have deeper meanings meant from God. The bible states God as being the creator and the redeemer and the old and the new testaments are each based on a great miracle, the old testament claims that God saved his people from slavery and brought them out miraculously from Egypt to allow them to escape.
