Mark Gagnon

So what is that?

I mean, is that a miracle?

Is that a coincidence?

Is it a different thing?

Young argues that.

that mystery that happened to him is something else.

He proposed that mind and matter aren't as separate as we think, that meaning itself can be a connecting principle, not cause and effect, but something parallel to it.

And a lot of scientists reject this, but the concept really stuck around in popular culture because it names something that people feel all the time, that some coincidences seem to mean something.

They carry weight even if you can't

Okay, now that we have these roughly defined categories, let's stress test them with real world cases.

And we'll kind of look at the data and try to decipher which category each story belongs to.

So our first example, and this has been, you know,

Actually, I won't even spoil it.

I'll just give you the example and then Christos, I need you to tell me which one you think it is.

In 1858, a 14-year-old French girl named Bernadette Soubirous reported visions of the Virgin Mary in a grotto near the town of Lourdes in France.

A spring appeared where Mary supposedly indicated and people who bathed in it began claiming that they were healed.

Now, the Catholic Church takes miracle claims very seriously.

They established the Lord's Medical Bureau in 1883, and since then, the church says more than 7,000 cures have been reported.

Of course, only 70 have been formally recognized as miracles after medical review.

That's about 1%.