Event not explicable by natural or scientific laws
For other uses, see Miracle (disambiguation).
"Miraculous" redirects here. For the animated television series, see Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
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The weeping statue of Our Lady of Akita. The Vatican has officially approved a 1970s Marian apparition in Japan as miraculous. The entire nation of Japan was able to view the tears of the statue of the Virgin Mary on national television.[1]
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A miracle is an event that is inexplicable by natural or scientific laws[2] and accordingly gets attributed to some supernatural or praeternatural 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.
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.[3]
A true miracle would, by definition, be a non-natural phenomenon, leading many writers to dismiss miracles as physically impossible (that is, requiring violation of established laws of physics within their domain of validity) or impossible to confirm by their nature (because all possible physical mechanisms can never be ruled out). The former position is expressed (for instance) by Thomas Jefferson, and the latter by David Hume. Theologians typically say that, with divine providence, God regularly works through nature yet, as a creator, may work without, above, or against it as well.[4]
^Jenny Schroedel; John Schroedel (2006). The Everything Mary Book: The Life and Legacy of the Blessed Mother. pp. 137–38. ISBN 1-59337-713-4.
^One dictionary defines "Miracle" as: "A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency."
^Halbersam, Yitta (1890). Small Miracles. Adams Media. ISBN 1-55850-646-2.
^Miracles Archived 2019-11-22 at the Wayback Machine on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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