“by Definition a Miracle Can Never Occur”

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n a miracle can never oc “By definition a miracle can never occur” Discuss Miracles are apparent through nearly all religious scripture; from Moses parting of the red sea to Muhammad's splitting of the moon, Deity within religious texts seem to be granted the ability to manipulate and change what seem to be immutable and perform extraordinary feats morals seem incapable of achieving. Today the term “miracle” is used habitually; many times have I heard how x beating y in football was a miracle, or how it was a miracle that z was not hurt when he fell off his bike. In biblical and philosophical terminology, miracle is not used as an expression to define an event of enormous success that “beat the odds”, it is used to reference an event which defies the natural law (or the order of things). There are many definitions of the word “Miracle”, and each vary from culture to culture. David Hume states in his work “Enquiry concerning Human understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals” that a miracle is “is a transgression of a law of nature by a particular violation of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent”[1], so any miracle would be a violation of what Hume refers to as a law of nature. To understand what Hume means by this we must understand what a law of nature actually means; Princeton defines Law of Nature as “a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature”. More specifically if x is classified as a law of nature then it can be assumed x is invariant, or that when a person attempts to create x, they will always create x and never y. For example if I were to throw an ordinary ball into the air only to observe it falling back down to earth until the end of time, and each time the ball fell down when thrown, I would be able to exclude the likelihood that when a ball is thrown into the air it will hover for a while,
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