Do you look for a rational explanation or choose to believe that miracles can happen every once in a while?

Yes..there are logical explanations for everything religious folk come up with. Even the plagues of the old testament.

Like theses idiots today..we are causing global warming..no we aren't its happened before it'll happen again. lol

Superstitious people make me giggle.

Miracles in no way ensue. For some thing to be a miracle it would might desire to defy and be thoroughly unexplainable or comprehensible via the guidelines of physics or of the universe. A vase appearing magically in my hand, must be an occasion of a miracle; besides the incontrovertible fact that, on the grounds that any reliable magician can show up this trick or an analogous trick conveniently, the miracle might basically be obvious to me. attempting to cajole others might basically make me look like an fool. I truthfully have in no way considered or heard of a miracle that became into no longer explainable. maximum those days the mummy Teresa BS. A batch of undesirable KODAK action picture and a woman who became into cured via often used practitioner's treatments who attributed it to mom Teresa. A media blitz via the Vatican and somewhat alteration to the guidelines for Sainthood, and a sparkling saint is born. If it particularly is the superb occasion of miracles the vatican has to furnish, faith is deeper interior the crud than even i ought to ever think of. Miracles do no longer decide for a rational explination. All they are is rational issues that human beings don't comprehend. As for those that we don't possibly unerstand, shouldn't we first rule out all available rational explinations in the past leaping to the top of a Miracle.

Temple this week a friend of mine had to have an operation. Long story short my friend died twice on the operating table. The surgeons had to stop and put and everything back. They then told her family that she would only last 10 to 12 hours and for her to survive she would need 4 miracles. Her body organs had started shutting down one by one. The Dr's said they needed 4 organs to start working again. She was given the last rites by a priest. Tears a plenty.

That was on Wednesday. She is still alive but in a coma. Religion still plays a big part in Ireland and a person said to me. "Beard, I don't care but there is nothing before prayer". In other words pray to god and he will listen and answer.

As a lapse catholic ney atheist. So people only survive if we turn god into a celebrity and hero worship him. That only the selfish get what the want as long as you give god his ego buzz??? WTF?

No I don't think so. I posted a question a few days ago because I thought about miracles and prayer. It was "Can you petition the lord with prayer?"

All my weak friends have renewed their faith in god. There all going to Mass on sunday because those 4 miracles the Dr said need to happen happened. However my friend is still in a coma but it is all looking far more positive than a few days ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1g8WCA7mJk

Do I believe in miracles no I believe enough numbers some come up. I think we cheapen human existence to put mystery to miracles. How about the work of Dr's and the strength of human endurance?

There is no "surface" or "underneath."

In some cases the obvious is accurate, e.g., "The ground is wet, so it probably rained in the past 24 hours." Is that crud or wondrous?

The sunset has pretty colors. That's due to the earth's atmosphere? Or, because unicorns painted the sky?

Don't you think the earth being over four billion years old is more wondrous that any creation story you could make up?

Temple, the description you have said, can apply to anything.

Take, for example, an old lady who refuses a life saving heart treatment, simply because she bluntly refused. She's mentally competent, socially stable, religiously has nothing against it, there are no alternative treatments, yet she refuses the treatment.

She wants to die, but she would not give you a reason. The reason she does give, is so convoluted that you cannot understand. But you are not obliged to coerce her into doing it as you must respect her opinion.

I think this is the best analogy I can give to put you onto my wavelength. The reason why autonomy overrides beneficence here, is because she has a reason behind her decision even though I cannot understand it. I will be forced to accept it as a personal failure and MOVE ON, not caring. Now you tell me, is that rational?

If it has a mundane explanation it's a miracle. The laws of physics doesn't cease temporarily for one particular person. There are only anomalies, not miracles. Your friend surviving pancreatic cancer is an anomaly, not a miracle. Walking away from a bad motorcycle crash is very unusual, but not a miracle.

Miracles DO happen, every single day. Sure, there's a scientific explanation underneath it, but why let that ruin it? Spirituality and science may just be different ways of looking at the exact same thing.

I fail to see how a rational explanation takes the wonder of it away. Have you studied how the human body works? What stars are made of? The intricate ways of water through a tree?

Science only shows us more miracles and wonder.

I'm not a very religious person and don't believe in divine intervention etc. But being a mommy and going through the development and birth of my children, I do believe in miracles as far as human life goes. A big part of me still believes that miracles do exist though.

The current understanding of cosmology is that the universe began from nothing roughly 15 billion years ago. Began from nothing - no matter, no energy, no space, no time, no laws of physics, nothing.

What is that if not a miracle?