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[/quote]Prophecies are predictions credited to intuition or inspiration. Sometimes they even come true.
Has very little to do with explaining how some “miracles” are preformed by illusions. I have seen Shaquille O'Neal float over a house. A really “big” illusion.[quote]


So unless you can establish a clear connection between magic and the prophecy concerning Cyrus that I cited you would honestly need to admit that this is no correlation between magic and Bible prophecy--which you already knew. The point that is established is that no one can make the predictive and fulfilled prophecies on the grand scale as the Bible authors. The fulfillment of prophecy is clearly an example of miraculous prescience that cannot be duplicated by any scientific or statistical model.If God can infuse individuals with miraculous prescience He can also use individuals to perform other miraculous acts.

Again as pointed out in the beginning of this thread--the scientific principles of the uncaused first cause, the anthropic principle, and irreducible complexity all require a miraculous creation outside of the present laws of science. Therefore it is unscientific to reject the possibility of miracles, because science requires a miracle to create the order from which science is derived.