ABSTRACT
This chapter features thought experiments, discussion questions and further readings on Miracles. A miracle is normally understood to be a transgression or violation of a law of nature by a theistic being. To believe in such a thing, we would need to have very good evidence. Nonetheless, there's something a bit different about the case involving miracles, that stems from the nature of something's being miraculous. What does not happen, though, is that we see laws of nature being violated. So, just as we would naturally ask for a higher standard of evidence in cases involving unlikely scenarios, so we must raise the standards of evidence even higher in physically impossible scenarios. The concern, then, is that the standard of evidence for giving us grounds to believe in the occurrence of miracles is simply so high that we could not ever have grounds for believing that we'd seen one.
