Can Miracles Happen

[Flying Pig]

Hence the "something else but not necessarily God" answer. Any sufficiently advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic, the potential explanations for the simultaneous eradication of all cancer would be deity or super advanced alien race. From a practical standpoint, I don't know that the options are all that different.

Exactly. Therefore I define the other way around - rather than 'God can perform miracles'; 'whatever it is that performs miracles is God'

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

And which "randomness" are you saying will produce our complete Shakespeare?

The former. Using the machine you discussed in your previous post, a strand of gibberish as long as Shakespeare's complete works would have the same probability of occurring as Shakespeare's complete works. Of course, there is far more gibberish than the unique case of Shakespeare's complete works. But, for any event with non-zero probability, given enough time, the probability of the event happening at least once becomes 1.

The latter implies that nothing but gibberish will be produced, assigning Shakespeare's works an absolute probability of 0.

 

[warpus]

If by miracle you mean a "whoa, holy crap" event, then yes. If you are talking about the supernatural, then probably not.

 

[Xanikk999]

Everything has a reason based in reality. In the religious sense, miracles dont happen.