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Comment author: shminux 08 October 2014 10:46:43PM 2 points [-]

Most atheists simply don't believe that miracles exist.

I totally believe that miracles exist. I have seen one or two myself over the years. I just do not feel that attributing them to a supernatural force is useful in understanding the world. To clarify, by a miracle I mean a one-off extremely unlikely and unpredictable event which cannot be explained by the known scientific models. Something way out at the tail end of the Bell curve.

Comment author: hyporational 08 October 2014 11:52:31PM *  5 points [-]

Could you be more specific about those events?

Comment author: ChristianKl 09 October 2014 09:36:56AM 1 point [-]

I totally believe that miracles exist.

I still think that >50% of those people who self identify as atheists believe that miracles don't exist.