A Miracle Happens Every Month

Though we may think that miracles are the acts of God and that the chances of it occuring are very slim. J.E. Littlewood, a mathematician, contradicts that belief, saying that a miracle can happen every month.

I was doing a bit of research on the Internet and came across Littlewood's Law. It states that a miracle is an exceptional event of special significance occurring at a rate of 1 in a million. During the hours in which a human is awake and alert, a human being will experience 1 thing every second. For example, reading this blog, typing, yawning, etc. Additionally, a human being is alert for approximately 8 hours per day. As a result, a human will, in 35 days, have experienced under these suppositions 1,008,000 things. Accepting this definition of a miracle, one can expect one miraculous occurence within the passing of every 35 days. Therefore, according to reasoning, miraculous events are actually commonplace.

In my opinion, this is a great example of logical thinking.

He goes on to describe the Law of Truly Large Numbers, saying that with a sample size large enough, any outrageous thing is likely to happen.

We tend to disregard things that likely happen all the time, and only take note of things that happen on rare occasions, such as a miracle, although in actual truth, it may be happening on a regular basis.