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The Miracle JerkerPosted Mar-01-08 02:36:57 PST Updated Mar-02-08 09:14:44 PST  Is anyone else sick of hearing everyone and their cousin proclaim an event to be a miracle? Like an individual surviving a tornado when the great majority of people near tornados do survive anyway. Like when a team of medical professionals uses a vast amount of science, compiled knowledge and costly technology to save someone’s life when those same procedures would not be used if they had a large failure rate anyway. In a more extreme example of misplaced miracles: many people are killed in a catastrophe, either natural or man made, and the survivors proclaim them selves to be recipients of “a miracle!” What about all those dead people? Part of “ . . God’s plan,” is a terribly easy excuse to justify misfortune of others within the boundaries of the beliefs we protect so dearly.Were the dead, victims of, an anti-miracle?
Would not a true miracle defy all reasonable natural law? If one person walks away from a plane crash that killed 200, that’s not miraculous, that’s fortunate timing and placement of his or her body within metal. Consider that it’s reasonable to expect that there may be at least one survivor. To a rescue worker on the scene the real amazing thing would be if no-one survived that plane crash. If you pull a slot machine lever 10,000 times to get the jackpot and still loose. Then some bum walks up to that same machine after you, pulls the lever once, hits the jackpot; was a god favoring him? No, he had the same exact odds of winning that you did. It was reasonable to expect that someone would win, sometime, or else the casino business would go under.
Get off it miracles splurgers. The world is predictable, reasonable, logical and best of all . . . the world is not supernatural. |
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