Just because an event is scientifically unexplained doesn't mean it proves the existence of God (Appeal to ignorance)

This argument is used in the debate Does God exist?.

This argument is an objection to Miracles attest to God's direct intervention.

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If a scientifically unexplained event is proof of God, then all things misunderstood by men in history were proof of God. On the same level as miracles. Lightning, clouds, falling bodies, placebos, etc...

But we now know the scientific explanation for some of these phenomena. The ancients were wrong to consider them as proof of God.

We're in the business of appealing to ignorance.

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