In reference to Richard Dawkins’ explanation of the jostling molecules causing the hand of a marble statue of the Virgin Mary to wave (see The Blind Watchmaker, pg. 159-160): “David Hume’s maxim in regard to the miraculous: No event that is more miraculous than the miracle that it seeks to discredit can be used as an explanation to deny that a miracle actually occurred. To any sane person who witnessed a marble statue of the Virgin Mary waving to him (and who then eliminated all possibility of there being some kind of trickery, illusion, or delusion), the possibility that it was indeed miraculous would be less miraculous than the possibility that it was the result of randomly synchronized subatomic jostling” [Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker, Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins Case Against God, pg.15]
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:18:03 +0000
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