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When an extraordinary, rarely experienced, rarely seen event is mentioned, it is immediately said to be contrary to reason, science and nonsense without being thought or analysed. First of all, it is necessary to make a rational and logical analysis of the concepts of “irrationality”, “falsehood”, “contradiction”, “opposition” or “rationality”, “validity”, “consistency” and “truth”. However, when this was not done during the Middle Ages in the West, and natural phenomena were analysed not in the light of natural manifestations but in accordance with the dogmas of the Church, the reaction that should have been directed solely towards the institution and dogmas resulted in the evolution of a disproportionality that generally included religious and spiritual fields. For materialists and secularists, miracles are events that should not be believed because they are rumours that the divine thought is contrary to reason and full of absurdities, while for some religious people, they are events that should be believed because they are strong signs of God’s existence since they are so extraordinary that they astonish the mind. In fact, both groups agree that miracles are contrary to reason. The difference between them is based on ideological opposition. Miracles, in the most general definition, are extraordinary events that prophets are said to have performed with God’s permission in order to prove the truth of their cause. In order to clarify the problem, we will first seek answers to the questions of what is “reason”, “rationality” and “irrationality”, and then we will examine whether the concept of the extraordinary in general and the concept of miracle in particular is irrational or not.