If we could be miraculously transported back there, we'd probably be appalled at some of the dumbness and naivety that went down.
He taught that faith could miraculously solve financial problems and claimed to have had a miraculous experience in which God supernaturally changed one-dollar bills into twenty-dollar bills to allow him to pay his debts.
Once I told it I had a TiVo, for example, its keyboard could miraculously control all the TiVo functions.
When penicillin was discovered, in 1929, it suggested that treatment of disease could be simple — an injection that could miraculously cure a breathtaking range of infectious diseases.
If homicides could miraculously be made to disappear in New York, the health department says, the gender gap in life expectancy would be cut almost in half for that 18-to-34 age group.
Possibly because I was denied "The Untouchables," I became a fan, retaining to this day my original sense of Shakespeare as a foreign language that I could miraculously more-or-less comprehend.
The Judeo-Christian version of immortality doesn't work very well without God: who but a divine agent could miraculously reconstitute each of us after our death as a "spiritual body"?
The traditional image of the child prodigy turned refined drawing-room composer, who could miraculously conceive an entire work in his head before setting pen to paper (always a distortion of the truth), gave way to the image of the serious and painstaking creative artist with acute human insight, whose complex psychology demanded exploration by writers, historians, and scholars.
The worst example was the "NINJA loans," where an individual with No Income, No Job, and no Assets could miraculously qualify for a mortgage.
Even if the a company could, miraculously, show that its shareholders are "legitimate," shares change hands, and the very complexity described previously will encourage complaints, litigation, and deeply-invasive government investigations.
