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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-14-08 11:59 AM Original message |
What is the difference between an extraordinary event and a miracle? |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-14-08 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
1. An 18 inch snowfall here 2 years ago was an extraordinary event |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-14-08 01:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Are you sure that there was an 18 inch snowfall two years ago? |
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Lancer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-14-08 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
2. Obama's election an extraordinary event, but not a miracle. |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-14-08 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
3. An extraordinary event is a miracle wittnessed by an agnostic. |
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Goblinmonger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-14-08 04:09 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Or a miracle |
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Bear down under (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-14-08 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
6. Not an extraordinary event, but an impossible one. |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-14-08 09:37 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. The problem with that definition is |
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Bear down under (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 08:56 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. There is no "problem" with the definition I gave |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 11:04 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. The notion that "laws of nature" are inviolable |
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Bear down under (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 07:36 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. You're confusing definition with proof. |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 09:06 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Your argument assumes |
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Bear down under (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 03:46 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Really? |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 06:30 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Two posts ago |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 02:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Given your claim that anything that can be suspended isn't a law, |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-14-08 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
7. You're right |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
10. The miracle originates outside of space-time. |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 12:17 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. What the heck does that even mean, specifically? |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
12. What is the difference between an extraordinary event and a miracle? |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 06:55 AM Response to Original message |
15. There is no extraordinary event |
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Random_Australian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 06:58 AM Response to Original message |
16. In normal standards of proof and evidence, something that requires extraordinary evidence |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 08:26 AM Response to Original message |
18. What's blue and smells like red paint? |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
20. It's the difference between rare and impossible. |
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