![]() ![]() Why is this lie so important? Olive wants her best friend to be happy and she knows that Ahn is deeply infatuated with Jeremy, so she tells Ahn that she’s going on a date with someone else. In order to convince Ahn that Olive is no longer interested (actually, never was interested) in Jeremy, Olive decides to tell a little lie: Olive has moved on. You know who does have sparks with Jeremy? Olive’s best friend: Ahn. She went on a couple dates with Jeremy, a fellow grad student, but there were precisely no sparks. Olive is a graduate student in the Biology lab at Stanford. This is a slightly creaky but charming romantic comedy that had me smiling at the pages. I had squirreled it away in my TBR knowing that the publication date was only in September (HOW are we past September already?!) and past me did present me a real solid in that respect. This was a read that was worth waiting for. Well, colour me pink and call me tickled. CW: There is an instance of sexual assault towards the end of the book. ![]()
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So something is clearly wrong with this principle. If we applied Hume’s principle to such a case, it would be irrational for us to believe that such a highly improbable event had actually occurred. This was the Age of Enlightenment, a time in which skepticism about miracles was becoming increasingly widespread among the educated elite. The title of the essay, “Of Miracles,” originally appeared in Hume’s larger work, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1748. One of the most influential critiques of miracles ever written came from the pen of the skeptical Scottish philosopher David Hume. As a Christian examining these arguments, we find little of value to convince us to reject a biblical worldview saying that God can and has intervened in natural history to perform miracles. Hume’s first premise assumes that there could not be miracles and his second premise is based on his distaste for the societies that report miracles. 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