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every thing crash but no mosque crash
even the people back to the god
every thing crash but no mosque crash
even the people back to the god
So what constitutes a miracle in your opinion?
Those were some pretty sturdy buildings. Why did god spare a hotel? Why didn't god keep the grounds perfect? Why didn't god protect the Muslim homes and just the mosques?
What I'm getting at is that it isn't unusual for a sturdy building to be left standing after a hurricane: For example this church after Katrina
Is this proof the Christian god is supreme or is it more proof that churches and mosques are built to last?
A miracle must be miraculous and these events aren't. It is perfectly average that some sturdy temples would survive.
Here is another church from WWII left standing after massive bombing:
Pretty ordinary really when you consider how well built it is and how big it is.
Here is another building after a twister hit Texas. Why did god save it? Could it be because it is sturdy and made of stone?
From the air you can see yet another example:
So why did god like this building so much?
If your going to use a miracle as proof then you need to find one that can't be explained better by nature.
I recommend reading David Hume:
The problem of miracles
In his discussion of
miracles in
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (Section 10) Hume defines a miracle as "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent". Given that Hume argues that it is impossible to deduce the existence of a Deity from the existence of the world (for he says that causes cannot be determined from effects), miracles (including prophesy) are the only possible support he would conceivably allow for theistic religions.
Hume discusses everyday belief as often resulted from probability, where we believe an event that has occurred most often as being most likely, but that we also subtract the weighting of the less common event from that of the more common event. In the context of miracles, this means that
a miraculous event should be labelled a miracle only where it would be even more unbelievable (by principles of probability) for it not to be. Hume mostly discusses miracles as testimony, of which he writes that when a person reports a marvellous event we (need to) balance our belief in their veracity against our belief that such events do not occur. Following this rule, only where it is considered, as a result of experience, less likely that the testimony is false than that a miracle occur should we believe in miracles.
Although Hume leaves open the possibility for miracles to occur and be reported, he offers various arguments against this ever having happened in history:
- People often lie, and they have good reasons to lie about miracles occurring either because they believe they are doing so for the benefit of their religion or because of the fame that results.
- People by nature enjoy relating miracles they have heard without caring for their veracity and thus miracles are easily transmitted even where false.
- Hume notes that miracles seem to occur mostly in "ignorant" and "barbarous" nations and times, and the reason they don't occur in the "civilized" societies is such societies aren't awed by what they know to be natural events.
- The miracles of each religion argue against all other religions and their miracles, and so even if a proportion of all reported miracles across the world fit Hume's requirement for belief, the miracles of each religion make the other less likely.
Despite all this Hume observes that belief in miracles is popular, and that "The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder."
Critics have argued that Hume's position assumes the character of miracles and natural laws prior to any specific examination of miracle claims, and thus it amounts to a subtle form of begging the question. They have also noted that it requires an appeal to inductive inference, as none have observed every part of nature or examined every possible miracle claim (e.g., those yet future to the observer), which in Hume's philosophy was especially problematic (see above).
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