Do Miracles Still Happen?
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... is century magic and imagination was dead and belief in God was beginning to falter. Belief in Deism was becoming increasingly popular, whereby God put the world together as a complicated machine and then does not intervene and allows it to continue by itself. Hume claimed that a miracle was a "violation of the laws of nature" and that the very definition and also nature seems to exclude all possibilities of a miracle; an event can only be classed as a miracle if it is an event which is impossible, otherwise it would not "merit that appellation". Hume systematically denied the existence of miracles through different arguments, claiming that no miracle was "attested by a su ...
