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By definition a miracle can never happen. Discuss There are many different questions that need to be answered when discussing miracles. These questions are: * What are miracles? * Do they occur? * Do they reveal God? * If so, what type of God do they reveal? However, this essay asks us to mainly focus on the first two questions, what are miracles? And can they occur? David Hume, an 18th century atheistic philosopher, defined a miracle in the following way, 'a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of a deity or by the interposition of some invisible agent'. Hume takes a transgression to mean a violation, and a law of nature to mean an action, which is repeated and therefore is predictable in nature. Most philosophers accept this definition today. Hume's argument states that by definition it is difficult to see how a miracle would occur. However, it is important to notice...

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