Posted: Sep 14, 2017 1:57 am
Shrunk wrote:
You're still not making yourself at all clear. I don't know how "atypical" it would be for a politician to break a law he, himself, enacted. But so what? Isn't it in the very nature of miracles that they be "atypical"?
#1 is consistent with what I would consider a "miracle", but you say that is the least likely.
Examples of #2 would be common things like thunder, lightning, the motion of the tides, etc, etc, to a person living 5000 years ago. They resulted from natural processes, but which would have been unknown at the time. But are those miracles?
#3 happens every time someone wins the lottery. But is that a miracle? I don't think so.
So, sorry, but you still are not making a bit of sense.
#1 would indeed be what most consider to be a miracle, in terms of something unnatural or supernatural.
#2 refers not to some natural phenomenon for which we don't know too much about, but rather an undiscovered/unknown one.
#3 doesn't refers to several extremely unlikely events happening at once: winning the lottery and learning you have inherited a fortune, and learning that your wife has unexpectedly and suddenly recovered from cancer - all on the same day. That would be grounds to suppose a miracle had taken place.