Thread: Miracles
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Old 02-18-2004, 08:20 AM   #2
Troubleshooter
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"Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic."

I think it was Aasimov who said that, but using that as a caveat it's reasonable to put forward the idea that the only difference between a weeping statue and an atomic blast is that we know how the atomic blast happens and how to reproduce it.

And following the clock backwards we get electricity (lightning) and then fire and all of the many things we've figured out over time.

What we end up with is that miracles are either unexplained phenomena or charlatanry.

It will all come in time.
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