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The credibility of miracles is established by the evidence of the senses on the part of those who are witnesses of them, and to all others by the testimony of such witnesses. The witnesses were competent, and their testimony is trustworthy. Unbelievers, following Hume, deny that any testimony can prove a miracle, because they say miracles are impossible.

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But it must be remembered that we are not looking for a literal counterpart but rather a spiritual application. Though they must have realized that an event quite extraordinary had occurred, yet they were uneasy, fearful that something unpleasant had befallen their teacher. Elisha's father was evidently a man of some means for he had "twelve yoke of oxen" engaged in plowing, yet he did not allow his son to grow up in idleness as is so often the case with the wealthy. The appropriateness of this particular means for counteracting the effects of the curse is at once apparent. When all were professed under the same condition as before, Blessed Dominic collected all the keys of the convent and, from then on, assumed full control of the convent. The two, though dissimilar, make one complete whole—and only subordinately a thing apart.

We have shown that miracles are possible, and surely they can be borne witness to. Surely they are credible when we have abundant and trustworthy evidence of their occurrence. They are credible just as any facts of history well authenticated are credible. Miracles, it is said, are contrary to experience. Of course they are contrary to our experience, but that does not prove that they were contrary to the experience of those who witnessed them.

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We believe a thousand facts, both of history and of science, that are contrary to our experience, but we believe them on the ground of competent testimony. An atheist or a pantheist must, as a matter of course, deny the possibility of miracles; but to one who believes in a personal God , who in his wisdom may see fit to interfere with the ordinary processes of nature, miracles are not impossible, nor are they incredible.

The fish died, and the river stank. It is called Deuteronomy Advanced warning was given of its coming. Warning was given before this plague came. Again, the nearby land of Goshen was spared. The sea then violently consumed the Egyptian army. Passage of Red Sea Exodus The great thunder confused and routed the Philistine army so that they could be killed by the men of Israel 1 Samuel 7: It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then you shall act promptly, for then the Lord will have gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.

This is but a slight thing in the sight of the Lord; He will also give the Moabites into your hand.

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We also believe that God is just as involved in the regular patterns of the created order as in miracles. What is a miracle? They always occur within a theological context. Some atheists view science itself as rescuing society from irrational ideas and harmful superstitions like miracles.

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They believe miracles are violations of natural law, and are by definition impossible. These ideas are not unique to atheists; even some modern theists have believed that science disproves miracles. Are Hume and Bultmann right?

And if Christians accept mainstream science, must they also reject the miracles of the Bible? Miracles happen against the backdrop of the regular day-to-day functioning of natural phenomena. The Bible describes God acting directly and routinely in the natural world. For example in Psalm Throughout the Psalm the point of view changes fluidly back and forth between what we might call the laws of nature and the direct action of God. Such dual descriptions can be found throughout the Old Testament.

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The New Testament continues this pattern and makes explicit that all of creation is actively sustained by God through Christ: In other words, if God were to stop sustaining all things by his powerful word, the world would stop existing. The authors do not make a distinction between natural and supernatural events.

These are modern categories. In addition to God working through regular patterns, the Bible also describes miracles that defy description in terms of current science.

Credibility

At the heart of Christian belief is a stunning miracle: The more we know about the processes of decay that set in after death, the less likely it appears that Jesus could have risen from the dead by any natural means. Rather, science strengthens the case that if Jesus did indeed rise from the dead, the event must have occurred without, above, or against his ordinary providential working. Like all Christians, Evolutionary Creationists believe that the biblical miracles happened and that God can do miracles today. The Cambridge evolutionary biologist Simon Conway Morris notes: I am not surprised at those [New Testament miracles] reported, I am surprised that they are so few.

What else would you expect when the Creator visits his Creation? However, Evolutionary Creationists differ with other Christian positions on origins about the extent to which God performed miracles in natural history. Young Earth Creationists see God creating the earth and life in six calendar days through a series of miracles.

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Old Earth creationists accept the much longer time-scales of mainstream science, but argue that God intervened miraculously at certain points in this long history to create certain features of the natural world. Supporters of Intelligent Design believe that natural laws are not enough to explain the development of life, and appeal to interventions into nature by an outside intelligence such as the God of the Bible.

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Evolutionary Creationists, on the other hand, emphasize that God has created throughout natural history using regular patterns that can be described scientifically. This is not because we are opposed in principle to the concept of miracles, but because science has proved extraordinarily capable of filling in the gaps in our knowledge. Also, Evolutionary Creationists generally argue that the context of natural history is not fitting for a miracle: