{"id":6804,"date":"2010-10-18T03:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6804"},"modified":"2010-10-18T03:00:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T08:00:35","slug":"whats-a-miracle-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6804","title":{"rendered":"What&#039;s a Miracle, Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/ebert\/2010\/10\/post_3.html\">Roger Ebert:  What do you mean by a miracle?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Arthur C. Clarke famously said, &#8220;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.&#8221; 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&#8217;s Advocate (that is, mankind) does not yet possess sufficient knowledge<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Ebert: What do you mean by a miracle? Arthur C. Clarke famously said, &#8220;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.&#8221; It is also true that an apparent miracle can be explained because our knowledge of its natural cause &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6804\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}