One of the obstacles to religious belief in the modern world, especially in a, let's say,

scientific, materialist, reductionist world is, of course, the question of miracles.

People don't understand, you know, what are these miracles?

Are they simply extraordinary things, supernatural, quote, unquote, events that happen.

And because they're supernatural, they convince people of the truth of a certain faith or a certain belief.

And therefore, they can get people to believe in something in a manner that issues the usual reasonable ways in which we

evaluate whether something is true or not. That is, of course, the criticism of a lot of the new

atheist types. And I thought it would be interesting to look at the question of miracles

of why it is that there are miracles in religion,

why there are miracles in Christianity, what those miracles look like, what they mean, and

what they possibly help us understand about how reality functions, and how they are not, in

fact, simply freak events that issue normal, reasonable patterns of being,

but rather they are events that, let's say, shine a brighter light on the way in which reality functions

and are even in some ways the fact that they're so surprising and so extraordinary is because

they show the pattern of reality in ways that are more than what we're used to seeing.

They kind of compress reality into these hyper events, we could call them,

that seem to contain more meaning in them.

And so they're not just freak events.

So we'll look at that, and hopefully it will help people at least understand.

I can't prove to you that miracles exist, and that's not the point.

But the point is to at least help people understand, you know, why miracles are there and what they can help us understand.

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