Do You Believe in Miracles?

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No
No

I also don't believe in god(s) daemons, fairies, pixies, goblins, imaginary friends or the promises of politicians.

Ed Almos

For many people on here I guess it is a miracle they have survived.
I believe in love and that love is a mystery that we can not fully understand.

I believe in Miracles and I believe in God, for no other reason that although life can be so painful it is profoundly beautiful and that beauty can and will never be possible to understand or map out.

I've had some odd things happen to me, that caused me to think of the word "miracle." Or luck. One, was I was driving a car that had numerous problems, and was always stalling. I was driving home one night, and had just turned onto a busy street, in rush hour traffic. I felt the car shudder, and knew that it was going to shut off. There were at least ten cars approaching me from the rear, that would definitely hit the car if it stopped suddenly. I tried to speed up to a reach a service station about one block ahead, but the car stalled anyway. I steeled myself for the impact of being rear ended, but the cars seemed to have vanished. I was able to re-start the car, and then steer it into the service station.

Two, I had stopped at the public library to make some photo copies. I had taken out my wallet, which contains all my ID, credit cards, money, etc and placed it on one of the tables. When I was done, I left, and caught a bus to do some shopping. After we'd ridden several blocks, I realized that I had left my wallet. I got off the bus and rushed back to the library, praying no one had stolen my wallet, even though the chances were slim. It must have taken me a good ten minutes to get there. When I arrived, my wallet was still sitting right where I had left it! And it was a busy Saturday, with lots of people milling around.

I think my cats are a miracle. Seeing them born and growing up and enjoying their presence in my life is an everyday miracle.

Yes, the Universe itself is quite the miracle, isn't it? As is life..

But, I don't believe that an omnipotent, omniscient being creates little loopholes, miracles, in the universe for people.

I believe in miracles, but none have ever happened to me.

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A miracle is, by definition, an event that cannot be explained by natural laws. If these events occur then there is no way that science can exist as science is based on the idea that all events fit in, eventually as we gain knowledge, to the scheme of the action of natural laws. Since great benefits have occurred by understanding how things work by natural law I believe that all events can eventually be explained by natural law. Otherwise you must accept that we live in a totally chaotic universe.

Yes and yes.

i dont know

That makes a lot of sense, like things that were unknown before, were considered supernatural in which we don't consider them anymore today because science can explain them now, I generally take history as a basis about this sort of stuff. If something unusual and unexpected happens that we can't understand we would take them as something supernatural or make it a possibility, then years later it would be explained scientifically.

However, I am always uncertain about it as well, so I don't completely deny such things, I don't completely believe either.

Nothing has ever happened to me that I would describe as miraculous. And I think the word "miracle" gets thrown around way too liberally... especially when people talk about the "little miracles." There is no such thing as a little miracle, I can tell you that much. If you witnessed a true miracle it would astound you, not just give you some quaint little anecdote to share ("so today I was thinking of calling so-and-so and just then the phone rang and guess who! what a miracle!")

I believe in miracles.

Where you from, you sexy thing?

(seriously though, yes and yes)

That was running through my mind as well.