Episode 10 - Sanctification, Miracles, and the Science of Why Jesus Told Stories

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Mike McHargue

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🗓️ 23 March 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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For this week's Ask Science Mike, we address the following questions: What’s your take on miracles? What’s the science behind storytelling and why did Jesus use storytelling in his teachings? Does modern cosmology and the Theory of Everything prove God exists? What are your thoughts on the process of sanctification? You're in charge of this program. All you have to do is submit a question using #asksciencemike on Twitter, YouTube, or Soundcloud. You can also submit questions anonymously on asksciencemike.com. The easiest way to get new episodes is to subscribe on iTunes here. Ask Science Mike is made possible by listeners like you. Learn more on our Patreon page. Here are some resources on each answer if you'd like to dig deeper. Q1: What’s your take on miracles? How do we know the laws of physics are binding in the future?Why light speed is a constant. Q2: What’s the science behind storytelling? Why did Jesus use storytelling in his teachings?The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, Jonathan Gottschall Q3: Does modern cosmology and the Theory of Everything prove God exists?The God of Physics, mikemchargue.com For the Doubters, gungormusic.com Q4: What are your thoughts on the process of sanctification?What is sanctification? Three Views on Sanctification.

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0:00.0	Sanctification, miracles, and the science of why Jesus told stories.
0:05.0	All that and more on this week's episode of Ask Science Mike.
0:09.0	You've got questions, he's got answers, even though he may not understand.
0:15.0	He'll talk anyway.
0:17.0	We have problems.
0:18.0	He won't solve them.
0:19.0	But he's talking talking, talking till he's blue in the face science faith in life.
0:25.4	Ask Science Mike.
0:27.0	Grab your party hats.
0:31.1	It's the 10th episode of Ask Science Mike. We've hit the double digits and it's all because of you.
0:36.0	I want to thank everyone who's submitted a question to the program or shared it with friends or rated on iTunes or contributed through Patreon to make sure the show is financially viable.
0:45.0	I couldn't do it without you.
0:47.0	We have some fantastic questions this week and thank you ladies for participating.
0:52.0	You answered the call. Let's get it started.
0:54.1	Hey science Mike, my name is Pat and I live in Honduras and I was wondering what your
1:06.3	take is on miracles and I guess when I say miracles I mean any time that a
1:12.0	scientific law of nature is intentionally broken.
1:16.0	So something more than, oh, I caught the bus this morning when I was running late, what a miracle.
1:21.0	The philosopher David Hume said, and I'm paraphrasing here, that
1:27.8	scientific laws are basically little more than precise attempts to describe the way things have happened in the past and the
1:34.8	correlations that observed.
1:36.6	But they are not binding causation on what will happen in the future, even if they are useful at predicting what will.
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