Definition of a Miracle

Page 5 of "Miracles" --

I use the word Miracle to mean an interference with Nature by supernatural power. Unless there exists, in addition to Nature, something else which we may call the supernatural, there can be no miracles.

Then on page 6 he says, "Before the Naturalist and the Supernaturalist can begin to discuss their difference of opinion, they must surely have an agreed definition both of Nature and of Supernature. But unfortunately it is almost impossible to get such a definition. Just because the Naturalist thinks that nothing but Nature exists, the word Nature means to him merely 'everything' or 'the whole show' or 'whatever there is.'"

He goes on from there ... exploring the implications of all that. I got lost in the thicket.

You wrote:

If it was rooted in some advanced technology then by my definition it is not a miracle, but is indistinguishable from one by Clarke's Third Law as modified by Deep Thought.

It's unclear to me what "advanced technology" would have been available to Jesus the Man in the ancient middle east. I think what you're alluding to is the "interference" -- if you will -- of technology from the future into the past ... a time travel / time warp or potentially an alien visitor type of thing.

You asked:

Was Lewis discussing those two different types of "miracle" in his book do you know?

I doubt Lewis was entertaining the notion of time travelers or alien visitors at the time of Jesus when he wrote the book.

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You and I posted at what looks to be almost the same time ... see my post preceding yours. :-)

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Chip-butties are not to be made fun of. They are good eats.

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The history of the formation of the Constitution and the wrangling over the amendments and such is something that even we here in the States are largely ignorant of. And nowadays, the history lessons of that era focus more on the politically correct depiction of the evil white man raping the utopia that was the "native American's" idyllic lifestyle. Jefferson, Adams, Monroe, Washington ... they were all slaveholding mysoginists.