Are "miracles" just a physical manifestation of the bell shaped curve.?

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tylertxanreborn

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We've all heard it before--pastor X prays for the man with cancer-and he's healed-a miracle right? Errr on closer examination is it not possible that associating the prayer with the cancer remission is a logical error of the first kind? (assuming a correlation where one in actuality does not exist). If 10,000 people were prayed for and of these 10,000 2 had a remission and 2 died the day they were prayed for and the bulk of the people survived the mean survival time for that cancer--is that a miracle. (Especially since you find the same data for 10,000 people not prayed for (google NYTimes article on prayer and curative properties). Isn't it possible that people misconstrue the physical manifestation of statistics as a miracle?
 
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Apospao

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I'lll give you a miracle....before i met Christ i wasn't going to any church , no one in my family was telling me i needed to read the Bible and i was going along in my life thinking what i was doing was OK and had no one telling me different. Then one night He came to me and offered me salvation and i took it, that was 31 years ago, and after reading the Bible which i could not put down, i have come to know Him as My Father and that is a Miracle ! I wasn't looking for Him ...He was looking for Me !
 
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Haruhi

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Yes, it happens on a daily basis. But its so much easier for people to believe that such things are possible. In case they ever should fall into such troubles where they have to call upon a miracle.
 
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QuestionEverything™

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I find it amazing that anyone even tries to use a logical appeal when communicating to people who actually believe that they are where they are today as a result of what a talking snake said some 6,000 years ago.
 
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OU812

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Yes.
Only things that man can not explain or does not understand are seen as miracles. Miracles, magic or anything of the sort just does not exist.
Thomas Paine said, “Man needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?”
 
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Jabberwock1

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Yep.

Look at the number of miracles attributed to events that we know happen naturally, such as recovering from a high-mortality (but not 100%) illness.

It's confirmation bias that leads to presumption of 'miracles'.

A related question here:
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=An7hVuEYSSDc3XP0WkrzdoAgBgx.;_ylv=3?qid=20100901083922AAPp9rG
 
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