MYTH-BUSTERS: Are Miracles Really Possible?

Do miracles actually happen? Has modern science rendered impossible the intellectual proposition that there actually are miracles, that is, events that cannot happen, according to the Laws of Nature?

The greatest “miracle” is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after His death on the Cross. He was dead for a couple of days and then on the morning of the third day, His tomb was empty.

The evidence for the claim that Jesus was literally resurrected back to life is vast, well-documented and overwhelmingly reasonable. That’s hugely important because, if true, then everything Jesus said about Himself as God must be true. As Paul said, if He wasn’t resurrected, then we Christians are fools!

Oxford mathematician John Lennox, with whom I proudly share Scots’ ancestry, deals with the issue of miracles, science and the Resurrection in the following 6:47 video. In the process, Lennox also demonstrates why a famous Scots philosopher got it wrong on the miracles issue: