ere are no events more improbable than miracles, which is to say that miracles are the most improbable events that can be conceived (Beckwith, History and Miracles, p. 94, emphasis added).Skeptic J. L. Mackie (d. 1981) says that miracles are indeed maximally improbable:[The believer] must in effect concede to Hume that the antecedent [causally or logically prior] improbability of this event [mi