XPost: sac.politics, can.politics, alt.atheism   
   XPost: alt.politics.homosexuality   
   From: David@block.net   
      
   On 6/13/2015 12:03 PM, mur wrote:   
   >>>>>      I believe if God exists the things he does would be "miraculous"   
   because he   
   >>>>> does them and anything he does that we consider "supernatural" would be   
   natural   
   >>>>> to him.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> That is of course circular reasoning.   
   >>>   
   >>> miraculous   
   >>> [mi-rak-yuh-luh s]   
   >>> adjective   
   >>> 1.   
   >>> performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency:   
   >>> a miraculous cure.   
   >>>   
   >>>       Things God does would be "miraculous" by definition.   
   >>   
   >> Not if the god in question was not supernatural.  "More sophisticated"   
   >> is not the same thing as supernatural.   
   >   
   >      If God exists and does things those things are by definition miraculous   
   from   
   > my pov regardless of whether or not anything is truly supernatural.   
      
   OK, so if God is my cat, then every time my cat catches a bug, that's a   
   miracle.   
      
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