Re: [asa] Miracle healing?

Murray Hogg said:
>
> (1) It seems that even if the above can be ascribed to the category
> "miracle" then it doesn't seem necessary to deny that there were
> recognizable physical processes going on. I simply DON'T adhere to the
> idea that a miracle is a violation of a law of nature - so I don't find
> particularly compelling what is probably the most obvious critique of the
> above, namely that we only call such events "miracles" because of our lack
> of natural explanation.
>
As far as I've been able to determine, the idea that a miracle is a
violation of natural law arose with David Hume, who was certainly not a
Christian. C.S. Lewis clarified what I believe should be the proper
Christian view of "miracles" in his book of the same name. That being that
God works through his natural laws to orchestrate events that to us appear
miraculous. However, it seems that every time atheists like Dawkins attack
the concept of miracle they attack Hume's version, effectively building a
strawman. So, once again we have semantic disagreement between theists and
atheists. I've yet to see an atheist acknowledge this problem. Has anyone
else?

RC

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Received on Fri May 23 22:06:13 2008