Miricle Men

One might define a miricle as an event which happens apart from nature. In other words, it is some form of intervention by something that is outside of the closed system of the physical universe. Of course, a complete naturalist does not accept the possibility of miricles under this definition. However, there are probably more believers in miricles than there are believers in God. Every person who believes that he or she has free will (and there are some, although probably few, who do not) believes in miricles.

A false dichotomy is sometimes presented in which events are either determined or random. Free will is often categorized as the latter. But if a choice is random, is it really a choice? Isn't a choice a creation of a personal being?

It is somewhat ironic that many of the people who maintain that miricles do not exist are often the most active in working to manage and protect the environment. They do not recognize the possibility that a personal and rational being can create and interact with our world, while they do this very thing themselves on a smaller scale. Every choice we make is an event outside of nature. We all make miricles.