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Critically assess Hume's dismissal of miracles. In his dismissal of miracles David Hume argued not that miracles were impossible, but that it would be impossible to legitimately prove that one had actually happened. He said, for example, that if one was to say that through miracle a person returned to life after death then this would go against the laws of nature, which have been repeatedly supported over hundreds of years: No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish. (David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, 1748) Or in other words you cannot prove something to be completely reliable unless the alternative to what you are trying to prove is even more implausible. Therefore, if one uses Hume's theory it can be said that one is more likely to be...

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