John Mackie's Definition Of Miracle
1. According to John Mackie, a miracle is an extraordinary event that’s conclusion is evidence of God’s existence and action within reality. For the event to be called a miracle, there are two requirements needed: a supernatural intervention to cause a violation of the natural world and for the event to have believably occurred, even if low certainty. This is a response to David Hume’s definition of a miracle as an impossible violation of laws. While Hume argue that miracles cannot be unless it can be reinterpreted within natural laws, Mackie state that with a purposeful intrusion from God allows for miracles to happen. Had someone died and came back to life hours later, Hume would state that person wasn’t died and his internal system took