| mrstickball said: I would say that you're correct that we don't know what all is out there - with other dimensions, quantumn physics, and the like. That may play a part of it. But alternatively, what if God works supernaturally through such things, and that those realms are merely the conduit of how he works? Yes, I believe some if not many "Miracles" can be explained by the scientific method - even if its through things we can't verifiy empirically yet. But the key is "many", not all. That is what makes empiricism useless in the argument of supernatural pheonmena. Even if 99% can be explained, you still have that 1% that is impossible to explain via science, which causes the scientific method to be flawed when people like Gervais require it to be able to explain and define God. I mean, if someone walked up to you - someone you trusted - and said that he heard "God" speak to him, (this God being someone he trusted and believed existed), and God told this person audiably to find a phone directory call a specific business 10,000 miles away, only for the man to do that and find his long-lost daughter visiting that business for the first time in her life. Do you know what the probability of such an event happening is? The likelihood of such an event occurring is impossible - but with God, I've seen such people talk about these kinds of miracles very often. |
That is where you are wrong. There is an unimaginably small possibility that this will happen, and when it actually does it is often considered a miracle by believers. It wouldn't make sense if we noticed every single likely thing that happens, but the few extremely unlikely things that happens are so hard to understand that some people choose to explain them through an almighty deity, while others choose quantum mechanics or simply don't make up their mind and would rather remain unknowing than choose an unproven answer.
