| With the course time, a lot of miracles became more | | | | defines non-natural events as miracles, but if these |
| and more understood. According to the words of | | | | miracles can be explained scientifically, they are |
| Hume, some miracles are tricks of nature, for example | | | | possible. As the result, miracle is not a miracle. One |
| the splitting of the Red Sea in the well-known Bible's | | | | more Hume's supposition is that what people think of is |
| story. This miracle can be easily explained: when there | | | | the superstition. When people think clearly about the |
| is a low tide, the person can cross the sea. The | | | | religion, they begin to lose the faith in it. Hume's criticism |
| Egyptian army sank because it was heavily equipped. | | | | has no target to prove that one's religion is false. He |
| It is not just simple suppositions, as the bodies and the | | | | says that the only way to stick to your belief is to |
| armour were found at the bottom of the Red Sea. | | | | support them, that is to give some indisputable reason |
| The most evidently that it was the cause of this | | | | to contribute to the beliefs. If there is the rational |
| occasion. Hume asserts that the miracles are the | | | | evidence of some belief, it is necessary show it and |
| breaking of the natural laws. According to his | | | | make others to believe the same. |
| explanation, the lifting of the mountain may be | | | | So, as the result one can say that Christianity has no |
| considered a miracle as well as flying of the bird in the | | | | miracles. In this situation so called fideists are right. |
| sky. As a result, a miracle is the phenomenon that can | | | | They are people who stick to their belief, without any |
| be explained from the scientific point of view. Hume | | | | proving of the miracles, they just obtain thief faith. |
| calls it the Transgressions of the natural laws. Hume | | | | |