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Janet Richards establishes the criteria that an event would have to meet for a rational agnostic to believe that it was miraculous. Sitting in a forest glade, members of the Course Team are enjoyin...g a picnic during which they are subjected to a variety of curious events. Ms. Richards analyses each event and argues that to qualify as a persuasive miracle an event has not only to be very extraordinary, but also spectacular. Even then it is not a basis for faith.
Janet Richards establishes the criteria that an event would have to meet for a rational agnostic to believe that it was miraculous. Sitting in a forest glade, members of the Course Team are enjoyin...g a picnic during which they are subjected to a variety of curious events. Ms. Richards analyses each event and argues that to qualify as a persuasive miracle an event has not only to be very extraordinary, but also spectacular. Even then it is not a basis for faith.
| Module code and title: | A313, Philosophical problems |
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| Item code: | A313; 06 |
| First transmission date: | 14-04-1981 |
| Published: | 1981 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:00 |
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| Producer: | Peter Walton |
| Contributors: | Rosalind Hursthouse; Janet Radcliffe-Richards; Trisha Tunnicliffe; Godfrey Norman Agmondisham Vesey; Peter Wright |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Squirrel |
| Subject terms: | Faith; God |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/73747 |
| Production number: | FOUA081F |
| Videofinder number: | 1290 |
| Available to public: | no |
