Runa216 Said:
oh I believe that may very well have happened, but that's not proof in the slightest. If you had never believed in god and weren't praying at the time, would you think that staying dry was some divine intervention, or just a weird coincidence? If not for your predisposition to believe that the result was an act of god (or for that matter, you already believing in God), I don't think for a second you'd think "Wait, this is weird, must have been something out there doing that for me."
There's no evidence to support what happened to you was an act of god. You wanted to believe it was, so when something weird happened you attributed it to god. It's a simple but common logical fallacy that's seen often in the religious, it's called "confirmation Bias."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
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As a man of science, I have never seen the physical and chemical properties of water change to such an extent that a man can climb out of a lake, fully clothed in streetwear, emerging perfectly dry. As a philosopher, I know logic. I admitted that it wasn't proof, or even evidence in the very first two lines I typed, did I not? You have established your system for defining reality and measuring the world, something outside of your acceptable parameters will be rejected. Happens all the time. Conformational bias can work both ways; skepticism can rationalize and deny things that a person truly experiences. All I have is my own personal testimony and I know it to be true. But I'll never be able to prove it, nor will anyone else for that matter. Thus preserving your definition of reality.
