Skeleton Learning Deck - Against Miracles Flashcards
What is Gareth moore’s opposition?u
Personhood and Gareth Moore - God is not a person so cannot perform miracles, to claim that God created a miracle is the same as claiming that no one did
What is Peter Vardy’s moral dimension
God fails to act where miracles are needed, but creates so many trivial religious significance miracles, helps some but not others, are we not equal?
What is Atkin’s opposition to miracles?
miracles cannot be acts that break the laws of nature because we know the laws of nature and they are reliable and unchanging, to suggest that they can shows that you have no understanding of science and how the world works
What is David Hume’s opposition?
not enough reliable witnesses, only religious people testify to miracles because they’re always looking for them
What is bultmanns opposition?
He promotes demythologisation
What is Macquarie’s opposition?
Why does one man see an act to be a miracle when another does not?
What is Tillich’s alternate reasoning for miracles?
Natural events may be perceived as a miracle and have religious significance for the person witnessing the events.
