Subject: Was Satan on earth before Adam |
Bible Note: Jesusman, you say "I have never understood where the idea came from to not believe the miracles took place because they couldn't be proven by science. The very definition of "Miracle" is that it is an event which is "supernatural" or beyond nature. Science is the study of the natural. By their very definitions science and Miracles are incompatable." C.S. Lewis actually has an excellent chapter on this subject in his book, "Miracles" (chapter 7, Miracles and the Laws of Nature). "Miracle is, from the point of view of the scientist, a form of doctoring, tampering, (if you like) cheating. It introduces a new factor into the situation, namely supernatural force, which the scientist had not reckoned on... The necessary truth of the laws, far from making it impossible that miracles should occur, makes it certain that if the Supernatural is operating they must occur. For if the natural situation by itself, and the natural situation *plus* something else, yielded only the same result, it would be then that we should be faced with a lawless and unsystematic universe. The better you know that two and two make four, the better you know that two and three don't." I recommend this classic of Lewis's for anyone interested in miracles. He is an amazing writer. --Cheryl |