Agents Enter Into The Picture

Agents Enter Into The Picture – Ep.318 – Miracles – Developing Hume’s Skepticism Toward Miracle – Part 2

Patrick April 14, 2025

A little shorter episode this week as this section and the next section have two different focuses. We look at how Hume seems to carve out outside agents enter into the picture to save natural law. The only problem with that is then you leave out those pesky humans to be able to enter into the normal course of events to upset it all.

Timeline:

00:00 – Introduction
00:15 – God Acting As Divine Acts Not Violations Of Nature
03:59 – Hume Has No Possibility Of Agents Enter Into Causes
06:39 – Miracles As Contingent Events
08:49 – Metaphysical Needs Over Scientific Language
11:16 – Conclusion