Are Miracles Proof of God.

To you non-believers out there, I just have one question: Do you think miracles are "proof" of God?

Today is an appropriate day to ask this question. Today is the feast of Stephen. In case you don't know, Good King Wencelas looked out, on the feast of Stephen. Here is the whole Christmas carol: http://www.carols.org.uk/good_king_wenceslas.htm

Anyway, I am an adamant skeptic myself. So I am not saying it does. I am just wondering how skeptics reconcile things like this.

 

Miracles are proof of man.

 

It's a miracle something was able to develop into something intelligent which caused us all today to be on this tiny planet. So in that way i would agree: we can see proof of God in all the miracles we see every day. But essentially miracles are not proof of anything except that there are things of which we have no proof of how it works (because a miracle seems to be mainly considered supernatural because it isn't fully explainable yet).

 

Instead, we prove it was a miracle because Physics made sense anyway. Probability only lies. I'm not sure this was Spinoza'a point of view:eggnog:

 

When miracles happen they dumbfound the mind. At this moment all accepted concepts become fragile and God can be experienced.

 

And Man exists to the existentialists.

 

Unlike the existentialist God isn't hostile or indifferent imo.

 

Today the the Bible is inerrant from cover to cover. This is a miracle. However, it may also be that that is a matter of interpretation for the miracle of the miracle's existence. Yes, this is more popular for the readers then the existentialist way of justifying that "God is a mystery", like Spinoza would believe.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpw-TSd36l8"]Divine Inspiration & Biblical Inerrancy: The Failed Hypothesis - YouTube

 

Miracles are proof of the universe.

 

I though they happened on 42nd street.

 

That was a miracle that the Cincinnati Kid lost that game of flip the coin at the wall at the end of "The Cincinnati Kid" with the orphan kid. Made some sense come into his heart for the blonde.

 

Before anyone attempts to use the miracle argument -get them to explain what they think a ‘miracle’ is and why. If they cannot explain how it can be proven that a natural cause for an event is impossible, their argument won’t work.
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Really, I dont have an answer- I'm just stirring up the thread. . .Its mostly about faith.
I hear people say "it,s a miracle" when a baby is born - or when a rainbow appears in the sky. - Obviously they,are natural reasons that make these events possible. Doesn't prove that there is a god or there isnt a god.
Any event that is contrary to the established laws of nature , can make ya wonder though...- -and wondering about a god, about spirituality, about unexplainable phenomenons is OK-
Wonder is a good thing - - - sometimes its more about the questions then the answers-

 

Have you proof of a deity's benevolence or it's attentiveness?

 

Miracles are the equivalent of positive statistical outliers in nature, more specifically the human experience.

Some people tend to use the term 'Miracle' very loosely and slap that term onto anything they deem 'special' when in fact that phenomena may be a pretty frequent or common occurrence. So there may be some deviation based on definition but as how I define miracles, they aren't necessarily a "proof" of God.

 

The idea of miracles give hope. Whether its God or statistics, to me doesn't matter.

 

How low of a probability does something have to have before it becomes a miracle?

A: Beyond our ability to predict

 

Right, miracles are observed in retrospect. The case where a person judges a miracle to be the experience at the moment for needed divine inspiration is just living ordinary goodness beyond scepticism.

 

not a proof of god, but a proof, if of anything, that we live in a universe stranger then what we think we know about it. with or without, one or more gods, and/or whatever else may see fit to exist.

proof, if any be needed, that there is more then we imagine or can.

 

Nope, 34th Street

 

What are we--some kind of experiment by some kind of observer? If there is an observer, doesn't it believe in intervention into the pain and death we cause each other? If an observer condones the endless strife humans have wrought upon one another--and still do, I can only see sadism as a dominant characteristic of that observer. Sadly. Make a touchdown--point to the sky--a divine miracle indeed.

Guerilla has it , I think. Post 14