Miracles

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> POOBAH

> Just because an event is not explainable in medical terms doesn't

> mean it is

> miraculous. There are many examples of spontaneous remission of

> these types

> of disorders in medical lore. I have no idea why it occurs. Neither

> do you.


STB
An interesting admission.  What you don't know about you say must STILL
not be a God.  But you still don't know that.  And you can't prove that
He doesn't happen and miracles don't exist.  You rationalize miracles
away but they happen and by Someone.

POOBAH
Now we see why you think Jason does so well. You are no more capable of
logical thought than he is.

I don't have to prove that "Goddidntdoit" this is the logical fallacy of
shifting the burden of proof. If you assert that event x is a miracle caused
by Jehovah, then it is your responsibility to demonstrate it, not mine for
withholding provisional acceptance.

Further, as has been pointed out to you at least once by Till, atheism is
not refusal to believe, it is simply the statement that the individual in
question has seen no convincing evidence for the existence of God. It is the
same position you apply to flying Dutchmen, invisible pink unicorns, and
fisrerbules.

Besides snipping every other point in the post, you also snipped the
following text from the very point you are responding to:

POOBAH (past)
The problem again, of course, is that this still in all likelihood results
in an argument of special pleading. If a Hindu holy man causes a miraculous
cure, would that convince you of the existence of Vishnu? I am afraid if I
accept the criteria you provide, I am left accepting any & all religions,
since "miracles" seem part & parcel of just about all of them. As the saying
goes, that which proves too much proves nothing.

I've read recently about more than one young child in India who recalls a
past life in eerie detail; does this prove to you the existence of
reincarnation? Why or why not?

While Christians see the face of Jesus in clouds, tortillas, on billboards
and in varnish, Muslims see the name of Allah in pomegranates and on
sneakers. What am I left to conclude?

POOBAH
Why don't you answer the questions above, Shawn? Your snipping makes you
look dishonest. Shall I assume your not dealing with any of the other points
I made is a sneaky tacit admission that you cannot refute my arguments
showing that Jason has done nothing more than engage in logical fallacies?

Since you've changed the heading to miracles, in order to bring this back to
on-topic, why don't you pick a biblical miracle and show us evidence that it
actually happened. The Flood? Talking donkey perhaps? Any miracle at all?

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