Opinion: Do you believe in miracles?

Question

THESE days most people think it unscientific to believe in "miracles", and irreligious not to believe in them. But would the occurrence of miracles really violate the principles of science? And would their non-occurrence really undermine religion?

Answer 1

Then what is a miracle,me winning the lottery would be very very unlikely but not a miracle,me flying by flapping my arms would be a miracle.

Answer 2

No, I do not believe in miracles.



Miracles cannot violate the laws of science. If they did then you could measure the violation. The biggest violation would be of Relativity. A divine power that interacts with the world, even trivially, would create very different observations in the data than we have. In particular, conservation could not hold and as such would not be a binding constraint on the divine being. As a slack constraint it frees up a lot of other known processes. You could easily see such violations.



For miracles to occur they have to stay inside the rules, of course that rules out a divinity because a binding constraint prohibits divine interaction, otherwise its not binding.



Yes, the non-occurrence does undermine religion because religion is based on divine information which cannot exist under relativity, the physics precludes it if you follow the math to its logical conclusion.



If there can be no divine information nor divine intervention then a god could exist, but such a god would be close to the god of the deists. The difference would be that such a god could not give a divine plan, while the deist god could. Again, going back to the binding constraints problem, physics rules it out as a possibility. So a god could exist, but the god would be truly irrelevant and so its existence or non-existence cannot matter in any way.



Yes that undermines religion.

Answer 3

Yes I believe in miracles. I really don't see how miracles have anything to do with science in the first place. Miracles are associated as a fortunate event closely related to the concept of destiny. IMO miracles don't violate the principles of science. I feel it has more a connection with your life already being predetermined if something good was meant to happen it will happen, you must have faith to receive a miracle and to see the beauty of what actually happened.

Answer 4

It's doubtful that this person is truly a Jehovah's Witness. While many can be fairly dogmatic, most would hold their tongue in this situation. Rank and file JWs do not call down the wrath of God upon others, even those who have defamed or hurt their feelings. One last comment: Why are you coming to Yahoo Answers for help? Why don't you go to your Kingdom Hall and ask your brothers and sisters to help you? Why not contact a local KH near where your injured son is located? Could it be that since Jehovah's Witnesses do not have any organized charitable assistance that you know that such entreaties would be fruitless. This is just the ramblings of a very angry person. I doubt if anyone would hold out their hand to help such a person or their family. Like trying to feed a rabid dog...

Answer 5

Miracles dont have to violate the principles of science - like when Jesus walked across water. It could be done if instead of walking he was running at say 60 miles an hour, by the laws of physics he wouldn't have sunk.

Answer 6

No. It is irrational to believe that God would intervene to, say, stab someone through the hands with the wounds of Christ, or appear randomly to a bunch of people in an evangelical church, and yet allow Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda etc. to occur, and continue occurring through the future.

Either God should intervene with every bad thing in the world, due to omnipotence and omniscience, or he should not intervene at all. There can be no solution to the problem of evil that allows miracles from the god of Abrahamic religions.

Answer 7

Of course a person has to believe in miracles. As you see, it is one of the ways that would proof that there's a great Creator who is able to do such abnormal thing that human science can't comprehend.

That's the beauty of miracles, they defy the greatest thing (Science).

It's very common that you see people who don't believe in miracles, that means their faith is playing on the lowest level, as I may put it.

Miracles is what makes us believe that anything could happen if you pray for it really really hard.

Answer 8

Miracles are just things that cant be explained but probably will be in the future.The Victorians would have seen a television or an aeroplane as a miracle but today it is normal.

Answer 9

miracles happen all the time, all around us. a tiny one-celled blob grows into a human being: a plant leaf grows into a whole plant; a salmon can find its away across five thousand miles of ocean - by *taste* - and up a river into the very section of the river bed where it hatched; a spider can spin a geometrically-perfect web ... I could go on.



just because these thngs are "commonplace" doesn't make them any less miraculous

Answer 10

i don't see how it's unscientific.. not everything has to be "scientific" and factual.. look at art. It's expression, beliefs, freedom. NOTHING wrong with science, i love science. just saying, not everything in the world has to be scientific.



I believe in miracles, as I am a Christian (Roman Catholic). I believe it was a miracle that my father's cancer was completely cured, and that my friends and I lived (without a scratch) a terrible car crash. God has his guardian angels and my patron saint to protect me, as well as The Virgin Mary and His amazing son Jesus Christ.



God Bless! :]

Answer 11

Miracles were for the purpose of proving a man was from God. The Bible is complete and miracles are no longer needed.

Answer 12

everyday that we are alive is a miracle!

we just take it for granted and turn a blind eye to it.



a lot of 'science' has been proved incorrect altogether.



miracles do not have to be scientific, and one does not have to believe in miracles fr it to occur.



miracles defy all human laws and logic, but they do happen.



i believe in miracles and so do millions of ppl.



you do not wait fr a miracle to happen to believe in miracles!

Answer 13

Yes. One summer I was working at a nursing home. It was the 60's,I was a Cal Berkeley student during the rest of the year, thus highly skeptical of religion. Part of the Sunday routine was to wheel the patients into the common room and let them watch Oral Roberts "heal people" through prayer asking Jesus’ intercession. On one such occasion I asked the nurse in charge if, since she was a medical nurse, she believed Oral Roberts was actually healing folks. Much to my surprise, she looked me right in the eye and said, "He cured my daughter of a medically incurable disease!"

Answer 14

i believe in miracle whip





the religious ones though...meh..y'all are just seeing things the way u want to...there are plenty of instances where humanity coulda used some *miracles*

but of course..a guy surviving an accident proves theres a god..despite the fact there are kids getting their legs blown off

Answer 15

My liberation by Yeshua was a miracle (Unearned and undeserved)

I have seen many since: lives transformed from alcoholism, materialism and more.

Answer 16

How can something be a miracle? I dont unerstand...its just chance.

Answer 17

hell no



if they dont violate the principles of science, its called phenomenon, not miracle and is perfectly natural



it at least proves that the bible is a lie

Answer 18

yes but there has not been one for a very long time?

Answer 19

Well I hope for them and sometimes they do appear to happen.

Answer 20

Yes I do. You can't assume something doesn't exist because it doesn't have proof.

Answer 21

yes Ive had quite a few..

Answer 22

HELL YEAH !!!