Miracles Weaknesses (Problems Concerning Miracles)

Question 1

Personhood - Gareth Moore

Answer 1

God is not a person and therefore cannot perform miracles

To claim that God performed a miracle is actually saying that no one performed the act

Question 2

David Hume

Answer 2

Not enough reliable witnesses - ‘there is not to be found in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men’

Only religious believers testify - ‘… A religionist may be an enthusiast and imagines he sees what has no reality’

Miracle stories come from unreliable places

Question 3

I

Answer 3

•Inductive arguments (such as the teleological argument) can never establish proof: they can only establish probability

Question 4

T

Answer 4

•The argument rests upon an inductive leap

Question 5

T

Answer 5

The existence of God is not an empirical hypothesis – it is not provable

Question 6

Science - Peter Atkins

Answer 6

There are no miracles, because we know the laws of nature and they are reliable and unchanging.
‘God is the last resort of feeble minds masquerading as truth. Science… Respects nobility of the human spirit