Some dear friends gave me a copy of Plato and the Platypus!, which I been delighting in over the last couple of months - I'm an unabashedly slow reader. In the section on Epistemology dealing with empiricism, the following passage:
Despite the triumph of empiricism and science, many people continue to interpret some unusual events as miracles rather than the result of natural causes. David Hume, the skeptical British empiricist, said that the only rational basis for believing that something is a miracle is that all alternative explanations are even more improbable...
With due respect, David Hume misses the point. What we call 'natural science' is itself miraculous... utterly and profoundly and inexplicably!
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