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Well, so I want to talk about miracles tonight.

Do you believe in miracles I was mentioning before?

The title comes from a great line from the 1980 Olympic hockey team,

Al Michaels, I think. That was one of the last things he said as they were about to polish off

the Soviet Union and what seemed like a miraculous victory. Great movie called Miracle. You should watch

if you haven't seen it. But I want to ask the question whether I movie called Miracle. You should watch if you haven't seen it.

But I want to ask the question whether a belief in miracles

can be reasonable.

I don't know if you recognize this man, this is Richard Dawkins,

who is fairly well known.

He's sort of an apologist for atheism.

He has a lot of evangelical zeal about spreading the atheistic message.

And here's some things he has to say about miracles,

maybe to kind of wet our appetite a little bit here. So Dawkins says, the virgin birth, the resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, the manifestations of Mary

and the saints around the Catholic world, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely

used for religious propaganda, and very effective they are with an audience

of unsophisticates and children.

And then he says, any belief in miracles is flat contradictory, not just the facts of science, but to the spirit of science.

So if you would answer that initial question, the affirmed of you believe in miracles,

and if you say, yes, right, Dawkins is saying that you're a child, you're unsophisticated, and you're flatly contradicting science,

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