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Yes? That doesn’t make it incorrect to call it a miracle.

• squigz 3y ago
  Yes, it does. "a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency."
  • squigz 3y ago
    Rather amusing to me how many people are downvoting this comment.
    • mhb 3y ago
      Yeah, it's rough out there for pedants.
  • rsynnott 3y ago
    That’s one definition, but it’s often used to just mean something very surprising and good. Or, if you’re an economist, just anything mildly unexpected.
• deepersprout 3y ago
  Or god wanted them all to die, but human technological advances made them live.
• ramesh31 3y ago
  > Yes? That doesn’t make it incorrect to call it a miracle. It was the intended, purposefully engineered outcome for precisely such an event. Not even remotely a miracle. The airframe designers at Airbus saved those lives, not divine providence.
  • DiggyJohnson 3y ago
    > precisely such an event There is a lot of variables in an accident like this. If some of those variables were different, this could have been much worse, despite the hard work of the engineers at Airbus. That's what makes it a "miracle". In general, I disagree that calling something a 'miracle' implies or withholds credit from those responsible for the outcome. It's very pedantic.