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To Firefly: The originator of this thread mentioned atheists who affirm that they would not, under any circumstance, admit to the existence of God even if they were to witness a miracle that appears to be divine in nature. I hoped to illustrate the very circumstances that would make it more reasonable to ascribe an anomalous occurrence to God and thereby undercut the validity of their unyielding stand.
Since the discussion was purely theoretical, I made no claims that miracles conforming to the conditions that would make believing in God more reasonable have actually happened. As far as I know, they have not.
That said, there are arguments- such as the Teleological argument, the Cosmological argument, and the Reformed Epistemologist's argument- that show how it is reasonable to believe in God. These arguments do not prove that the Christian God exists. Rather, they demonstrate that belief in God can be reasonable, and therefore rational.
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