Belief in Secret Miracles - Science Expires
A miracle is what is not naturally possible. It is a supernatural occurrence. It
is paranormal. It's an act of God.
Religion uses alleged miracles as evidence for the truth of its claims.
Belief in silly secret miracles is dangerous for it says we should neither trust
or mistrust anything for we don’t know when they happen or how much they happen.
If silly known miracles happen it is supposed that silly secret ones happen
too. Indeed one would assume that they happen far more often. According to some
objectors, “But silly known miracles if validated only prove that it is likely
for silly known ones to happen. We know nothing about the unknown ones and it
seems we should not believe they happen for there is no evidence that they do.”
But many miracle reports are not heard of outside a tiny circle of people. And
to say it is possible the secret silly miracles happen casts doubt on all we
take for granted. And to say they are likely is to deny the validity of any
evidence we give for anything. Maybe the devil put Johnny's fingerprints over
the stolen vase.
You could have a silly known miracle that you won’t see as a miracle until
later. It would be mad to say that only secret miracles that will be discovered
happen for you only happen to discover and so there could be ones that you will
never discover. If they did not happen you would know if the miracle was real
the minute it happens without testing and investigating.
The objectors are assuming that something can only be mistrusted when it is
caught and that is terrible logic. Even Jesus himself said that if you can’t
trust a person in big things you can’t trust them in small things. The same goes
for a force. The objectors would have us saying things like, “That guy would
steal the cross of a donkey’s back but since he does it to everybody else that
does not mean he would not do it to you so you should trust him and employ him
as your accountant.” Assuming that silly secret miracles don’t happen is just
assuming. It’s no good for we are trying to look at the problem of miracles and
how they relate to evidence in general logically which is the only way it should
be looked at. We want to protect evidence so miracles should be abandoned.
What would be the point in a force doing crazy observable miracles and then not
doing crazy hidden ones? So miracles abolish the validity of the evidence we
take for granted in daily life.
Assume we should believe in miracles. Nobody who believes in miracles and who is
sincere and who has a little logic ever says a miracle HAS happened for it would
be better to say is that a miracle HAS PROBABLY happened. The reason is that
there could be natural laws that do the miracles and these laws have not been
found yet. And there are explanations for miracles, perhaps alien super-science
or something, that don’t need the supernatural. You cannot ever prove a miracle
so every miracle is a secret silly miracle in the sense that you don’t know that
it is a miracle. You don’t even know if it is probably a miracle. Again,
miracles abolish all evidence.
To admit public silly miracles may happen is to say that it is possible that the
sun has died and the sun we have now is a replica. To say that strange and silly
secret ones happen is to make this far more probable than ever!
You could say that even though x was exposed to y coughing over her, the flu
virus she got was not from y but was a miracle one. If you claim it's a right to
believe in non-secret miracles then it's a bigger right to believe in secret ones
like that. Why? From the human point of view, there will be less controversy and
bother for people. Secret miracles do not attract fanatics and give false hope
to the desperate or be an excuse for them to give it to themselves. Charlatans
will not be able to prey on people who believe only in secret miracles or not
miracles. There will be no time wasted on the miracle claims for they cannot be
investigated. From the intellectual point of view, there is no reason to believe
in secret miracles. As there is no evidence for them we simply assume they don't
happen. But it's no huge deal if we believe in them. Clearly to believe in
miracles then makes us sure of nothing at all.
Science shows that antibiotics work. Or does it? What if
they are useless and it is a perpetual miracle at work? That would explain
why people get better. Researchers all agree that to view God as
constantly or perpetually suspending natural law makes science useless and
futile and blasphemous. Even the suggestion that God could be perpetually
suspending natural law or alternatively that what looks like a natural cause in
fact is not (eg if antibiotics do not affect the immune system and the response
of the immune system is not down to them but a miracle) ruins science.
Science does not make room for any doubt when something is verified. And
there is enough to bring doubt in if anywhere without miracles and the
supernatural adding to it.
Miracles undermine the very evidence and support they depend on! They advance
the superstitious mentality.