@xris,
This was an aweful discussion. I can see the dissonanc standing from right here, and I'm standing pretty ******* far, guys. There were too many preconceived notions tossed together at once, and a battle of semantics ensued.
Xris, you seem to want to regard "miracle" as simply an anomaly, and not necessarily something with intelligent intent, while democritus asserted a logical argument with the proposition that a "miracle" was something that most definitely did have intelligent intent (basing this on the OP). From what I've read, the OP actually didn't seem to focus as much on intent as he did on the differentiation in probablity, more along the lines of the "miracle" xris was requesting evidence of. Meanwhile, you have people posting regarding the application of meaning, when that wasn't even the facet of "miracle" being discussed. It was just a big misunderstanding.
Xris: There is no evidence of any of these anomalies actually occuring. See Democritus.
OP: You make a good point: Decreasing probablity of confined time and place defines many notions of "miracle".
Everyone that brought up meaning: Every consciousness not only applies meaning, but also decides the frequently. "Miracle" can be as rare or common an occurance as the observer wishes, but the common ground is that it usually coincides with the observer's desire. But, like every word of this nature, there are various notions and some may not fall perfectly in line with this. As Whoever noted, the existence of the universe could be argued to be a "miracle" simply on the terms that the observer enjoys life; the "miracle" hasn't directly fulfilled any desires, unless of course we consider life being a consistent desire.
In my opinion, it's just another slipshod word we toss around to suit our desires. It's a useless word to me, and that's why I've discarded it. But I understand if someone wants to apply meaning to me stabbing a busdriver in the eye that was just about to murder a whole school bus of children, when, without warning, an eclipse occured, rendering the driver's remaining eye useless because at that very moment every light in the entire city was turned off by a squirril that just happened to jump into one of the main reactors, which then caused the visually impaired driver to swerve the vehicle at just the right moment to have the entire bus land on a heavy duty safety parachute that was just patented that very day, balancing itself off of an Ohio cliff just long enough to get the children to safety, but not long enough to allow the driver to survive (whom died of karma, that b itch!) :poke-eye:
