Why is it that...?

Why is it that...? Dec 3, 2020 21:31:38 GMT

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Post by FilmFlaneur on Dec 3, 2020 21:31:38 GMT

Dec 3, 2020 11:59:59 GMT Arlon10 said:

Dec 3, 2020 9:19:56 GMT The Lost One said:

But again, that's not what's happening here. It's not "laws of nature" vs "miracles", it's "laws of nature + miracles" vs "laws of nature only". Therefore evidence for the laws of nature cannot settle the argument in the way Hume suggests.

I don't have huge problems with your argument here - but it is not Hume's argument.

My perspective on "miracles" is that they are only miracles to those who cannot perform them or have any inkling how they are performed... When people who live far outside civilization first see airplanes they might consider them miraculous. (I think I read somewhere that happened.)

This is at least one thing we can both agree on. There is however a big difference the notion that advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and that said magic is therefore from a whole different level of reality since it is 'special'.