Silly David

One reason many people don’t believe in miracles, is because the teachings of David Hume. He said that only things that concur with the past experiences can be accepted. Thus, ruling out any possibility of the miraculous. The problem with this logic is, it is a circular argument. He is really saying you can not believe in anything unless it corresponds with past experience. We can agree with this idea of Hume’s if we have undeniable evidence against miracles, that they have never happened, then they simply just never did happen. But we can only have undeniable evidence against them, only if we know all reports of miracles are false, and we can only know if all reports are false, if miracles have never occurred. This is an argument that just goes in a circle.
There is another silly objection when it comes to believing in miracles. This is also a circular argument. A good example would be this dialogue. -I don’t believe in miracles! -Why not? : Because the crazy people that report them are unreliable. –Why are they unreliable? –Because they believe in miracles of course!