Are Miracles Illogical? PLUS More Q&A
I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST
Dr. Frank Turek
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Can a logical person REALLY believe in miracles? Frank responds to a challenge from our skeptic friend, Mike, while tackling the big question: Do miracles contradict science and the laws of logic? From science and history to philosophy and faith, we'll explore what God's nature reveals about the probability of divine intervention. Tune in as Frank answers questions like:
- Is it reasonable to believe in macroevolution?
- What is the acronym L.I.F.E.?
- Who else besides Christians question the theory of macroevolution?
- Why must miracles be rare to be meaningful?
- What are four ways Jesus demonstrates His divinity?
- How many miracles do we find in the Bible?
- In what three time periods do we see the most miracles in the Bible and why?
- Does God have limitations--or is He truly all-powerful?
- What's the difference between overpowering and violating the laws of physics?
- How did Jesus become the central figure of the human race?
During the end of the podcast, Frank also addresses concerns regarding the last podcast episode and Josh Howerton's "proof of a propaganda war". Did Josh only get it "half right"? If you’ve ever wondered whether miracles are reasonable, this conversation will pinpoint why faith in God actually makes sense!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, are miracles illogical to believe in? |
| 0:08.7 | Is the Christian faith illogical? |
| 0:11.7 | I mean, if God exists and Jesus rose from the dead, |
| 0:14.5 | why doesn't Jesus just appear to everybody and just settle all of these questions about who is the true God. Why just rely on a small group of |
| 0:23.6 | people from the ancient past 2,000 years ago to tell us all of this is true? Well, I got a |
| 0:31.4 | email from our sort of our resident skeptic. His name is Mike. He writes in quite a bit. He listens to the show. |
| 0:40.9 | I'm blessed that he listens. He is a believer in God, but not necessarily a believer in Jesus. |
| 0:46.7 | And our last show, where I went through 10 aspects of reality that support Christianity, |
| 0:54.0 | he wrote back and he said, Frank, I always enjoy when you |
| 0:57.5 | dive into reasons and logic why Christianity is true. A few questions are observations. He writes |
| 1:04.6 | this. He says, if we humans were the ultimate purpose of creation made in the creator's image, is it logical |
| 1:13.0 | that the process would evolve over 13.8 billion years in result in a currently known universe |
| 1:19.7 | of 93 billion light years across just to wind up with us? |
| 1:24.5 | If human history gives overwhelming evidence to the finality of death, is it logical to believe |
| 1:29.1 | that Jesus and the numerous others who rose from the dead in the Bible before him, including |
| 1:33.9 | the many saints raised at the moment of Jesus' death in Matthew 27, are true accounts? |
| 1:39.3 | And based on all evidence of human procreation, is it logical to believe that Jesus was divinely |
| 1:45.5 | impregnated like Hercules and numerous other deities and a variety of ancient religions? |
| 1:51.0 | Or does the claim that the Creator is all powerful and can choose to violate all the laws of |
| 1:56.4 | physics, logic, and reason whenever he chooses conveniently explain these occurrences. |
| 2:03.3 | And if that's true, and the creator is also, as claimed all merciful, |
| 2:07.4 | is it logical that he would have to have his son dying a cross, rise from the dead, |
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