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One thing we could say, however, is that the "miracle" you describe could not be considered as evidence for the Judeo-Christian God.
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The exact point I wanted to make.
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Well you are both totally wrong. By far the biggest single argument against the existence of the Judeo-Christian God is that it postulates the possibility that supernatural events can occur. If it was ever shown that they could in fact occur that argument goes away.
Put mathematically it would go something like this:
A sceptic/atheist assigns the probability that there is a power capable of producing supernatural events as 1%. He assigns the probability of the Judeo/Christian god to be .3%
If a supernatural event occurs (that could reasonably be ascribed to the Judeo/Christian god), God moves up to a 5-2 shot.
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That doesn't negate the idea that its not evidence for a Judeo-Christian god. Iamgine observing a poker player who consistently loses and its obvious they play very bad. They insist they are good and the only reason they lose is because god hates them gambling and intervenes miraculously to make them lose. Then the arm re-growing 'miracle' happens, even if its true that the probability of them being correct has risen there's still no evidence that they are losing because of god.
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