Daily Archives: July 17, 2009

Are Claimed Miracles Incompatible with Science?

Melinda Penner from Stand to Reason tackles that challenge.  An Excerpt:

There’s a difference between the laws of nature and the laws of logic. The former are contingent and we know them by induction; the later are necessary and we know them a priori. We know by their nature and by our rational instinct that the laws of logic cannot be broken, they have an incumbency that is absolute. However, the laws of nature are quite different and their consistency in our experience by no means rules out the possible suspension or violation now and then, in other words, a miracle. Science cannot disprove the virgin birth. And neither do the laws of logic. Therefore, we look for other kinds of evidence, and the historical witness is a rational basis.

Hmmm…