Do you think extraordinary miracles happen and can be explained by mainstream science?

Question

for example if a person whos legally blind or born blind or deaf is cured of this when he or she attends a church and can later see or hear! do you think these sort of miracles have any scientific explanation? and has any amazing miracles ever happened to any of you? that left the doctors baffled?

Answer 1

extraordinary miracles are best explained in the metaphysical arena.

Answer 2

Nope, they can't always be explained by mainstream science, that's why they are called "Miracles."
If science could explain these "miracles" then they wouldn't be miracles at all because then science would take the credit for them.
Yes, I have experienced more then one miracle, all life saving miracles too. Each time the doctors were ready to sew me back up with the idea to send me back to my hospital room and watch and wait for me to die. I had several different specialists from different states in the operating room each time and no one had any idea of what the problems were and after cutting me open and setting most everything that was inside me along side my body so they could check everything out, they just gave me up for dead.
It wasn't until several days later that three of the specialists dropped in at the hospital just to visit a few of the doctors there that they were told that I was going to be discharged from the hospital the next day because I had recovered enough to leave there without any more problems what so ever and whatever was causing my problems had all disappeared the day after they all helped with my surgery. And as of this date no one has any explanation as to what the problem was or why it isn't any more.
I have not had any set backs since that last surgery either.

Answer 3

Miracles do not occur. At least the term miracle is a misnomer.

By this I only mean to suggest the following.

Their is a popular notion in the modern world that there is some kind of dichotomy between the "supernatural" and the scientific.

Even the enlightenment philosophers believed that the order of the natural world testified of a rational higher power. They of course used the idea of a clock maker God to deny the "miraculous" but that doesn't make any sense, because even if my watch breaks, I can send it back to the manufacturer to have it repaired.

The manufacturer has in a sense performed a miracle on the watch, he has restored to working order an "organism" by which I mean a functionality or device that operates through various interrelated complex parts . . . to begin again, he has restored to working order the thing that I could not fix on my own power because of my ignorance and lack of understanding.

There is a verse in Proverbs that says the "Lord by wisdom founded the earth, by understanding he established the heavens."

God does not perform "miracles" like magic tricks; he is more like the ultimate repair man with the ultimate mechanical or scientific knowledge of the world.

No man has enough understanding to fix all of the world's problems, but he has enough understanding to become arrogant in the capacity of his own mind and start decrying the concept of "miracles".

Once again there are no miracles. If I took a gun into an early tribal culture and started shooting people, for a time they would have thought that I had some kind of magic power. That is not a testament to the reality of magic power, but rather to their own ignorance.

People call the works of God miracles, because they are deficient in their understanding.

I would not however say that the kind of thing you see in modern churches is a real manifestation of the power of God.

Christ did much of what he did in secret and constantly exhorted people to keep quiet about the work that God had done for them.

Even Pharaoh's sorcerers turned their staffs into snakes.

To set up this antagonism of science and faith is a total logical fallacy. A presumption of an arrogant mind.

Answer 4

Yes, I have seen miracles1. I have seen a child who was born with an extra blood vessel to the heart "resolve" the issue so that the vessel completely disappeared and was no longer evident -- even by echo. A medically fragile child with a progressive heart condition "stabilized" and is now doing skin-the-cat on the swing set. A child with CP and seizures could barely walk at two and is now an adult who "overcame" these disabilities and is now zooming around on a bicycle and dancing the night away. All three of these kids overcame obstacles in ways that were beyond any intervention they received medically or through therapy.

No, doctors aren't baffled. The human body is designed with mechanisms that "kick in" sometimes in ways that we don't expect to remove unnecessary pathways, reconnect blood or energy flow, or even rewire circuits in our brain. That's what doctors assume happened in these cases, but even the doctors have sometimes used the word "miracle." In one case, the doctors told the parents, "Maybe you got the miracle you were praying for." Indeed.

Yes, miracles happen2 all the time. People should really be more alert and recognize them when they occur. Maybe it takes a sort of optimism to expect a miracle and faith to call it what it is.


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1 I use the word "miracle" to explain the intervention of God, the designer and creator, in the lives of normal people to bring about unusual and extraordinary events.

2 I'd prefer a better word. "Happen" seems to imply a sort of "chance" occurrence. I don't believe these medically complicated resolutions happened by chance. Please read as "come about at the designated time" or some similar meaning.

Answer 5

I am a Spiritualist and a scientist who is not aligned with any religion. I don't believe in physical miracles and to explain them with science would not be considered. I feel that all miracles involving physical rehabilitation's are hoaxes meant to attract people to the church. Miracles occur in my life but they are left to my interpretation. I take a pragmatic approach to what I define a miracle as being. It takes a lot of faith and humility to give credit for the miracles that I have experienced to something that I don't need to define. Who am I to say what a Higher Power is?

Answer 6

When science explains a miracle it is no longer extraordinary, simply mundane. All observable events have scientific explanations.

Answer 7

The only baffling thing about miracles, extraordinary or otherwise, is the boundless gullibility of people who believe in them. The bit of science that is best suited to explain miracles is psychology,

Answer 8

yes i have a story to tell science cannot explain, had an aneurism at the age of 11, barely survived the operation after being taken by helicopter from hospital to hospital. after the surgery i was left in a coma, the doctors predicted i wouldnt wake up at the least after 1 to 2 months, it was an aneurism in the brain. 2 days later after the operation, i woke up. no one could understand why or how can a little girl wake up so quickly after such an surgery and heal to fast. i left the hospital 2 months later as if nothing in my life ever happened. no defects, no disfunctions. no doctor could explain how such thing happened.

Answer 9

Yes, I had an athritic coccyx after two breaks. I was shown the reason for my pain on a X ray whilst visiting my consultant.

Some years later, I went to a big convention where all those who were currently in pain were asked to stand (if possible). I stood to my feet, and the speaker prayed a simple prayer of faith for all those who were in pain. My pain went immediately, and 7 years later I am still free of pain.

Answer 10

We didn't have a scientific explanation for head aches, autism, chicken pox or bees for a long time. Just try, try, try, we get smarter and hopefully wiser by looking at things with reason and finding plausible conclusions to miracles and mystery

Answer 11

i do believe that extraordinary miracles can and do happen, and no, they can't be explained -- otherwise they would cease to be a miracle. a miracle means that it is not humanly possible to have happened, therefore humanity will have no rational explanation for it.