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'Miracles do not happen today' The usual definition of a miracle is, 'An event which seems to break a natural law and for which the only explanation is God'. In this essay I want to argue that although miraculous events occur, there are problems in defining them solely as events which break a 'natural law' and for which 'the only explanation is God'. That some things happen in life for which there is no immediate explanation is clear. For example, at the British Grand Prix in 1999 Michael Schumacher crashed and broke his leg. The heading in one newspaper quoted him as saying afterwards that 'God saved me in 140 mph crash'. In 1879 in a village called Knock, in Ireland, the community witnessed a vision of the Virgin Mary, St Joseph and St John on the wall of the local Catholic Church. Ever since then the village has become a place...

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