miracle
Sign in to saveA miracle is an event that cannot be explained by natural or scientific laws and accordingly gets attributed to some supernatural or preternatural cause. Various religions often attribute a phenomenon characterized as miraculous to the actions of a supernatural being, (especially) a deity, a miracle worker, a saint, or a religious leader.
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A miracle is an event that cannot be explained by natural or scientific laws and is therefore believed to be caused by a supernatural force, such as a deity or saint. Miracles matter because they play an important role in many religions, where they are seen as evidence of divine power and intervention in the world.
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- Definitions
- Naturalistic explanations
- Law of truly large numbers
- Supernatural explanations
- Philosophical explanations
- Aristotelian and Neo-Aristotelian
- Baruch Spinoza
- David Hume
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Søren Kierkegaard
- James Keller
- Religious views
- Buddhism
- Christianity
- Catholic Church
- Evangelicalism
- Hinduism
- Islam
- Judaism
- Criticism
- See also
- Notes and references
- General references and books
- Further reading
- External links
A miracle is an event that cannot be explained by natural or scientific laws and accordingly gets attributed to some supernatural or preternatural cause. Various religions often attribute a phenomenon characterized as miraculous to the actions of a supernatural being, (especially) a deity, a miracle worker, a saint, or a religious leader.
Informally, English-speakers often use the word miracle to characterise any beneficial event that is statistically unlikely but not contrary to the laws of nature, such as surviving a natural disaster, or simply a "wonderful" occurrence, regardless of likelihood (e.g. "the miracle of childbirth"). Some coincidences may be seen as miracles.