Understanding of religion.

I believe that religion can be a form of Philosophy in, and of, itself. In the early stages of humanity, before science was able to explain most of life's mysteries, people thought it was the workings of God that created or caused things that man could not explain. I believe philosophy was also a catalyst to the understanding of religion because it caused man to think about those things he could not explain, which led to religion.

I certainly believe some of the philosophical arguments can change someone's religious convictions. Take Fred Hoyle and Freeman Dyson, for instance. They both had their religious views altered after witnessing some philosophical truths to Intelligent Design in their experiments and observations.

I think the whole concept of Miracles is left out of the philosophical arguments. Such things and immaculate conception and stigmata are difficult to explain and so far, no scientific explanation has been made, except for some instances of stigmata which were proved to be fake.