David Hume famous Scottish thinker(n the 18" centur)、
お made a clever point_ībout miracles! He began (by defining
nature) Stopping or starting
or turning a frog into
a miracle as a breaking bf the laws of
a watch (by the power of thought along,
a prince would be good exampleg bf breaking the laws of natur.
Miracles like that would be very disturbing (indeed) to science.
46 Disturbing if they ever happened, that is! So how should we
respond to stories of miracles? This was the question Hume
turned to, and his answer was the clever point I mentioned.
If you want to know Hume's actual words, here they are:
“No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the
s
testimony be of such
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