{"id":35,"date":"2012-08-07T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skepticblogs.com\/justinvacula\/2012\/08\/07\/an-a-priori-rejection-of-miracles\/"},"modified":"2012-08-07T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T22:00:00","slug":"an-a-priori-rejection-of-miracles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/2012\/08\/07\/an-a-priori-rejection-of-miracles\/","title":{"rendered":"An a priori rejection of miracles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I uploaded a short Youtube video (rather than writing a blog post) concerning miracles.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"An a priori rejection of miracles?\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1onI4V60zxM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Do atheists\/skeptics\/secularists have an a priori rejection &#8212; one before any sort of experience of investigation &#8212; of miracle claims? If so, is this justified? Is this a bad thing? How do &#8216;believers&#8217; of all stripes justifiably jump from &#8220;I don&#8217;t know\/I can&#8217;t explain this&#8221; to &#8220;it&#8217;s a miracle&#8221; &#8230;and then ascribe the miracle to a specific source? I&#8217;m willing to accept miracle explanations if given good reasons, but what I have heard so far has been very insufficient<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I uploaded a short Youtube video (rather than writing a blog post) concerning miracles. Here&#8217;s the video description: Do atheists\/skeptics\/secularists have an a priori rejection &#8212; one before any sort of experience of investigation &#8212; of miracle claims? If so, is this justified? Is this a bad thing? How do &#8216;believers&#8217; of all stripes justifiably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,37,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critical-thinking","category-miracles","category-philosophy","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}