miracles
A physicist reflects on miracles, surprisingly sympathetically
Miracles are not only for the religious
At The Stream: Peer reviewed study of a miracle
Must historians exclude claims about miracles?
Moving beyond COVID crazy: Is there evidence for Jesus’s resurrection?
Miracles: Can They Happen?
A few days ago we had a post on Science, Miracles, and Benny Hinn, highlighting portions of Bill Dembski’s new online book The Faces of Miracles. It seems appropriate this time of year to consider miracles. After all, in the Christian world, this month we’re celebrating an event that can only be described as a miracle: the virgin birth of Christ. So what exactly do we mean by the term “miracle”? In the book, In Defense of Miracles: A Comprehensive Case for God’s Action in History, Richard Purtill provides this definition: A miracle is an event that is brought about by the power of God that is a temporary exception to the ordinary course of nature for the purpose of Read More ›
Science, miracles, and Benny Hinn
Bill Dembski on technology and religion in the face of miracles
Rob Sheldon: If you want laws of nature, you must accept miracles
And Christianity too, says our physics color commentator Rob Sheldon. He explains: Proposition: Miracles are violations of natural law. 1. What is natural law; Who invented it? Who enforces it? Who interprets it? a) One argument is that natural law is merely inductive. The sun has risen daily for the past 5000 years of written history, therefore it is a law. But if it did not rise tomorrow, that would only be a 1/1,800,000 event. Are we saying that probabilities < 1:1,800,000 are always certain? Then certain rare forms of cancer should certainly never happen. b) Another argument is that “Nature” operates by laws that we discover. But what is “Nature”? How do we meet “Nature”? If it is inductive, Read More ›