Can Mythology Save the Miraculous?

[Philosophy Now]

Stephen Anderson argues that religion isn’t simply a system of profound myths – it relies on making factual claims which are really true.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/52/Can ... Miraculous

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Interestingly, the concept of the miraculous contains both the supposition of scientific laws and the admission of infrequency within it, as C.S. Lewis once perceptively observed. For one does not call anything a ‘miracle’ unless it is an event of singular improbability, one that contravenes the expected scientific laws. Thus one cannot rule out the miraculous on the basis that scientific laws are against it. The very most that one can deduce from the existence of those laws is that miracles are unlikely – to which the believer in miracles always has the cavalier rejoinder, “No kidding.”

© Stephen L. Anderson 2005