Is this a myth: Bible miracles are impossible?

Question

Can scientists explain God's miracles?

Answer 1

--NO BIBLE miracles are not impossible!
--YES SCIENTISTS have an explanation as what might happen:

** g84 2/22 pp. 19-20 The Miracles of Jesus—Did They Really Happen? ***

The Encyclopædia Britannica puts it this way: “Although the possibility of miracles is often confidently denied, such denial rests on an unproved assumption; since we do not know the continuity of nature so thoroughly as to be able to declare that this or that event is necessarily an interruption of it.”
*.....Scientists have discovered that under abnormal conditions, things often act quite differently from what we might expect. For example, when lead is submerged in liquid helium cooled to a temperature of -456 degrees Fahrenheit (-271° C.) and is placed near a bar magnet, it becomes an excellent conductor and acts like a powerful electromagnet. Under normal conditions, any object heavier than air that is released in midair will fall to the ground. But consider the astronaut who simply floats around in his spaceship. Such things are hard to believe, unless you happen to know the laws of nature that make them possible.
--Doctor Hans Hoppeler, Swiss author of the book Bibelwunder und Wissenschaft (Miracles of the Bible and Science), said: “The person who believes in an Almighty God, who has laid down the laws of nature and who is in control of them, finds it obvious that from time to time this God could intervene in his universe in a way not understood by us and according to laws unknown to us, and this for the purpose of making known his power and wisdom.”

*** w75 4/15 p. 251 Jesus Christ—A Historical Personage ***

---Victor Hess, discoverer of cosmic rays, once stated: “It is sometimes said that the ‘necessity’ of the ‘laws’ of nature is incompatible with . . . miracles. This is not so. . . . Many of our physical laws are, in fact, merely statistical statements. They hold for the average of a great number of cases. They have no meaning for an individual case. . . . Must a scientist doubt the reality of miracles? As a scientist I answer emphatically: No. I can see no reason at all why Almighty God, Who created us and all things around us, should not suspend or change—if He finds it wise to do so—the natural, average course of events.”—Faith of Great Scientists, edited by W. Howey, p. 10.

Answer 2

The short answers: (1) yes. (2) no.

You're talking about epistemology. The problem with your questions is an underlying assumption that science is the only way of gaining knowledge. Science is limited, it can neither prove nor disprove miracles.

You're also probably operating under the assumption that science has a necessary foundation of naturalism or materialism. True scientists can also operate with a foundation of supernaturalism (Creation scientists, or scientists who are Creationists) or the possibility of supernaturalism (Intelligent Design scientists). In other words, science can indeed allow for the possibility of miracles.

That said, miracles can be legally/historically documented & established as fact. For instance, the birth, life, death & resurrection of Jesus Christ are all falsifiable facts that have been proven this way. What few people know is that all the things written in the Bible concerning Christ are facts. The only thing left that is a matter of faith is that Jesus died to take away "my sin".

There's an excellent radio talk show archive about this very subject: "Faith based on Facts" (http://www.kfuoam.org/Issues_ETC/ie_09_25_07.htm).

Answer 3

People just claim that miracles happen.

But there is no evidence for the supernatural.

Bible miracles do not happen. People want to claim that they do to offer validity to their religion. Some lady on ebay sold a grilled cheese sandwich that supposedly had the picture of the Virgin Mary on it. It's all about what people value, not what really happens. Parents say their children were cured from cancer, while conveniently leaving out the chemotherapy and twenty doctors helping the odds. Religion is about what people want to believe, and some fundies are so into their faith that they will bash science and the benefits it gives the average man and woman on this planet.

Let's look at the "miracles" of science, things that would not be possible even a century ago. We've cured polio, developed a vaccination for malaria, cured the plague (it killed off 1/4 of Europe in the dark ages, when people thought it was an act of god). Why fight reality?

Answer 4

Humans have much to learn about God's creation. No scientist can fully explain gravity, precisely define all the components of an atom, or explain the exact nature of time.
"can you find out the deep things of God, or can you find out to the very limit of the Almighty." Job 11:7
Since creation is beyond our complete understanding, capable scientists are becoming increasingly cautious about saying that a certain thing is impossible.

Answer 5

God can set aside the normal way of things and do things in another way. Scientists are only concerned with the normal usual way of things

A miracle is an act of God outside the normal working of things. The realm of operational science is the normal working of things and the observable, repeatable and testable

As far as origin science... that is where even secular scientists are somewhat outside their element.. its not observable repeatable and testable They generally unaware when they bring philosophical assumptions and beliefs of their own before looking at the data and often look at data through the eyes of a type of secular faith

Answer 6

The point of a 'miracle' is that it can't be explained and only God knows the true design and works of the miracle

Answer 7

Miracles can happen. Man just gets jealous if he can not explain it (besides God did it) rationally at that time. Part of the division in Christianity comes from putting God on man's level (in many Bibles; I call it an index that currently defines the old testament as Genesis-Malachi).

Answer 8

God's Miracles are the myth. Nothing exists without a natural explanation.

Answer 9

Check out the 10 plagues in the Old Testament. All are explainable, however, they all have God's signature

Answer 10

many a doctor or scietist has shaken his head in amazement
people healed cancer gone
people do still rise form the dead too even modernly as a result of faith
no I don't think they can explain them
did you know that demonic possession is still in the medical books? they can't quite rule out what spirituallity does for the human soul!