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I am happy for atheists to visit this blog and join in with the comments box, and there are few topics which I like more to engage atheists in than the topic of miracles.<\/p>\n

This is because miracles are the one topic where both the atheist and the believer exhibit the fact that both are almost completely closed minded. This is because they start with two very opposite basic assumptions. The atheist (yes, I know there are some atheists who aren\u2019t like this\u2026) assumes that miracles can\u2019t happen because well\u2026miracles can\u2019t happen. In other words, he believes that the natural order is closed. The laws are set. They can\u2019t be altered. That\u2019s that. If there is something that we can\u2019t explain it\u2019s just that we haven\u2019t learned how that part of nature works yet. Certainly he admits that there are strange phenomena,but because he can\u2019t admit the existence of God he also can\u2019t admit the usual explanation of miracles: that God did something strange and spooky. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"