WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Are Claims About Miracles Really Just Hoaxes?

Mention in mixed Capitol Hill company — that is, a bipartisan group of men and women that includes Christians and non-Christians — something in the Bible that you consider to be a miracle and odds are that you will shortly thereafter be subjected to at least some degree of scorn, derision or belittlement. Maybe not to your face, or maybe it will be.

That’s because ours is the age of the secular materialism – the belief that there is nothing beyond matter, energy, space and time (MEST) and that everything that happens is a product in the ultimate sense of “blind, pitiless” natural forces. Miracles — that is, instances of supra-natural phenomenon — simply don’t, indeed cannot, happen, according to this view.

But secular materialism is an interpretation, an opinion if you will, of scientists about scientific and other evidence thought to reveal something about the origin of the universe. Believe it or not, there are actually reasonable opinions about the origin of the universe that allow for miracles. The Colson Center’s Shane Morris explains in the latest “What Would You Say” video:

If you would rather read the transcript instead of watching the video above, go here.

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