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Miracles of Modern Science (or MOMS) is an American independent band formed at Princeton University in 2005. The band is composed of Evan Younger (double bass, lead vocals), Josh Hirshfeld (mandolin, vocals), Kieran Ledwidge (violin), Geoff McDonald (cello), and Serge Terentev (drums). Their musical style stems from modern orchestrations for classical string instruments.
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‘Problems arise if we use the word “miracle” to claim that God disrupts natural laws’
A miracle, in the vernacular, is simply something wonderful but inexplicable. But two problems arise if we use the word to claim that God disrupts the laws of natural science to intervene directly in human affairs.
Firstly, it reinforces a false dichotomy, consistently rehearsed in current public debate, that science is incompatible with theology: The language of “miracles and wonders” belonged to a medieval, magical view of the world that has been displaced by modern science, and, while it still makes for good poetic language, it does not help us articulate a worldview that embraces science as consistent with religious belief, rather than a threat to it.
Instead of describing unexplained events as miracles, then, it makes more sense to say that God is the author of creation, and its wonders are gradually unfolded to us through the pursuit of science. We understand many miracles of the past – we know why the Northern Lights appear, and that diseases are cured because of biology, not magic – and today’s miracles are tomorrow’s science. Their explanation makes them no less wonderful, nor God less present.
The second problem is that of theodicy. To attribute unexplained, beneficial events to divine intervention begs the question why God would concurrently allow terrible things to happen. Why would God heal someone’s headache, yet fail to produce a miracle to prevent this car accident, or that earthquake?
Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem “The Wreck of the Deutschland” reflected on a tragedy that brought this dichotomy into sharp focus. In 1875, five nuns, unable to practice their chosen religion in their home country, had (seemingly miraculously) found the opportunity to sail to America for a new life in religious freedom. But the SS Deutschland ran aground, and among the many that drowned were the five nuns. Why, wondered Hopkins, would God offer the small miracle of a passage to a better life, and then allow it to be cancelled out by such an immense and inexplicable tragedy?
Hopkins concluded that God neither watches from a distance, nor controls the world like a puppet-master. To insist that God is the performer of miracles is also to make him the worker of monstrosities. God’s goodness and presence is best understood if we release ourselves from the need to attribute every event, good and bad, to divine intervention, and instead allow that the chaos and wonder of the natural order has its own power under the authorship of God.
Maggi Dawn is associate professor of theology and literature, and dean of Marquand Chapel at the University of Yale. She is the author of five books, including The Accidental Pilgrim (Hodder and Stoughton, 2010) and Like the Wideness of the Sea (Darton Longman & Todd, 2013)
simon_edwardsSIMON EDWARDS
‘The greatest miracle ever is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ’
I am a sceptical person by nature – a lawyer by training – and I believe in miracles. Yes, you read that sentence correctly! I find that most objections to the existence of miracles are based on questionable philosophical presuppositions rather than an open-minded assessment of the evidence.
The most common objection to belief in miracles is that they are impossible – a miracle would violate the principle of the uniformity of nature. This argument sounds persuasive until you realise that it’s not an argument at all. Rather, it’s the linguistic equivalent of saying: “Miracles never happen because they violate the principle that miracles never happen.” In other words, it’s a reflection of an ideological pre-commitment to a naturalist worldview (the view that the entirety of existence can be explained as a closed, self-contained system of natural causes).
Christians believe that we live in a system of uniform natural causes, but one that is open to intervention by God – the creator of the system. Indeed, the concept of a miracle actually presupposes, rather than sets aside, the idea that nature is a self-contained system of natural causes, otherwise there would be nothing striking or surprising about miracles when they do occur.