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To: Fester Chugabrew
There is one other thing that simply has to be put on the table. I notice a lot of threads on FR dealing with miracles. One recent example was a thread whose title asked whether President Reagan's life was saved by an angel.

I'm going to ask all the creationistist and ID posters to answer the following: Is it anti-religious to question claims of miracles? Is it anti-religious to investigate phenomena like the now-deceased church window showing an image of Mary?

Assuming it isn't anti-religious to investigate, is it anti-religious to be skeptical when you have no explanation?

In short, is it anti-religious to assume that everyday phenomena are the working out of unchanging laws of nature. Is it anti-religious to formulate hypotheses based on that assumption?
168 posted on 03/14/2004 8:13:32 AM PST by js1138
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To: js1138
is it anti-religious to assume that everyday phenomena are the working out of unchanging laws of nature

No, I don't think so. I understand Islam is very deterministic.

174 posted on 03/14/2004 8:35:48 AM PST by cornelis
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To: js1138
I'm going to ask all the creationistist and ID posters to answer the following: Is it anti-religious to question claims of miracles?

This is just my opinion, but I do not think it is necessarily anti-religious to question claims of miracles. Your question is too broad, however, to answer "yes" or "no," because there may be, and certainly have been, cases where miricles were questioned out of an anti-religious bias.

Personally I do not believe every report of miracles. In fact, I would dare say that I have no need of those reports because they do not establish or confirm what I already know to be true.

192 posted on 03/14/2004 11:10:41 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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