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Miracles don't happen. Mark A. Pearson.

Miracles break the laws of nature because nature is under God's authority.

This means he can act on nature in ways we cannot.

Judging miracles by our own personal experiences means that a miracle could only be similar to something that has already happened to us.

This would not be miraculous.

When we study history, we see that some strange occurrences make more sense as miracles than as a mass of absurdly complex coincidences.

Walking on water. Yeah, right. A pregnant virgin. You can't be serious.

Parting the red sea. Do you believe in a flat earth, too?

These skeptical responses to miracles of the Bible are typical. We live in a scientific age after all where old books with fanciful stories can no longer be taken on blind faith.

Instead, they are dismissed as myths and legends invented by primitive superstitious people.

These people knew only a fraction of what we do about how the universe works.

Simply put, our advances in knowledge have determined that the laws of nature do not allow miracles.

Claims of supernatural events cannot withstand the critical scrutiny of history.

Only the most gullible, ignorant people still believe these outlandish claims, namely religious fanatics who take the Bible too literally and who refuse to grow up.

That's the charge anyway, and it comes from commoners and college professors alike.

But is this, in fact, the case? Are Christians forced to check their brains at the church door? Have science and reason demonstrated that miracles are on par with Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny?

Not by a long shot.

Miracles are not only possible, the miracles of Jesus in particular are probable.

In fact, when we examine arguments against the supernatural, it doesn't take much to expose the faulty reasoning on which they rest.

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