God and Nature: Four Problems of Cosmology, Part 5 (The Reasons to Believe #97)

Our Reasons to Believe passage from the Word of God today is Acts 16:31. It reads, "And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." 

Our Reasons to Believe quote for today is from Michael Denton. He said, "Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality...which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man?"

Our Reason to Believe powerpoint today is titled "God and Nature - Four Problems of Cosmology" part 5 from "The Handbook of Christian Apologetics" by Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelli.

Miracles -- We begin with a preliminary definition. A miracle is: a striking and religiously significant intervention of God in the system of natural causes.

Note two things here: (1) the concept of miracles presupposes, rather than sets aside, the idea that nature is a self-contained system of natural causes. Unless there are regularities, there can be no exceptions to them. (2) A miracle is not a contradiction. A man walking through a wall is a miracle. A man both walking and not walking through a wall at the same time and in the same respect is a contradiction. God can perform miracles but not contradictions --- not because his power is limited, but because contradictions are meaningless.