Skeptical about the possibility of miracles?

Patrick: Some people have an anti-supernaturalistic bias, i.e., they have decided that miracles never happen, because of a preconceived bias. Here's a good article that discusses two philosophers' views and why they were inadequate.

MIRACLES
by Dr. Phil Fernandes

A chapter from his doctoral dissertation© 1997,

Institute of Biblical Defense, All Rights Reserved

Christianity is a religion based in history. The claims, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth occurred in history. For this reason, historical apologetics (to be discussed in Part Six) is of great importance. If one can prove that Jesus really did rise from the dead in history, then one will have gone a long way towards establishing Christianity as the true religion.

However, before an apologist can engage in presenting historical evidences for the resurrection of Christ, he must first answer the philosophical objections against the possibility of miracles. If miracles are by definition impossible, then it makes no sense to look into history to see if Jesus really rose from the dead.
The strongest philosophical argumentation against miracles came from the pens of Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677) and David Hume (1711-1776).... To read the whole article, click on this link: www.biblicaldefense.org/Writings/miracles.htm