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miracle

Also known as marvel

A miracle is an event that cannot be explained by natural or scientific laws and accordingly gets attributed to some supernatural or preternatural cause. Various religions often attribute a phenomenon characterized as miraculous to the actions of a supernatural being, (especially) a deity, a miracle worker, a saint, or a religious leader.

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A miracle is an event that cannot be explained by natural or scientific laws and is therefore believed to be caused by a supernatural force, such as a deity or saint. Miracles matter because they play an important role in many religions, where they are seen as evidence of divine power and intervention in the world.

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Contents

Definitions
Naturalistic explanations
Law of truly large numbers
Supernatural explanations
Philosophical explanations
Aristotelian and Neo-Aristotelian
Baruch Spinoza
David Hume
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Søren Kierkegaard
James Keller
Religious views
Buddhism
Christianity
Catholic Church
Evangelicalism
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
Criticism
See also
Notes and references
General references and books
Further reading
External links

Informally, English-speakers often use the word miracle to characterise any beneficial event that is statistically unlikely but not contrary to the laws of nature, such as surviving a natural disaster, or simply a "wonderful" occurrence, regardless of likelihood (e.g. "the miracle of childbirth"). Some coincidences may be seen as miracles.