What's a Miracle, Anyway?

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Roger Ebert: What do you mean by a miracle?

Arthur C. Clarke famously said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” It is also true that an apparent miracle can be explained because our knowledge of its natural cause is inadequate. For the Church to declare anyone a saint, I presume, is possible because the Devil’s Advocate (that is, mankind) does not yet possess sufficient knowledge

3 thoughts on “What's a Miracle, Anyway?”

  1. Everything we have of value, real and imagined, we owe to Lucifer and His bootleg apple. Whenever “god” is claimed we are being scammed, and our wallets drained. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.”

    Doesn’t the Church of Rome have Ten Founding Postulates, the second of which prohibits the making and worship of graven images? That, and the first, “Thou shalt have no other God before me.” That’s not temporal, that is spatial. Yahweh doesn’t like golden calves.

  2. I always went by Dr. Who’s Law: “Any magic sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from technology.”

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