Objections: The Gathering

[Jenny A]

Objection number 2 is a misunderstanding of sorts:

2. If there miracles of God contradict science, then how can any rational person believe they are true?

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.  In an older and closely related meaning, "science" also refers to this body of knowledge itself, of the type that can be rationally explained and reliably applied.

The problem with miracles is not that they contradict the existing body of scientific knowledge, so much as it is that they tend to be untestable or the claimant refuses to allow them to be tested.  Lacking the ability to test them, skeptics dismiss them as unproven.

Not surprisingly, science has exposed a number of miracles as either out and out fakes, or being simply the result of natural predictable causes.

For example:  weeping statues http://skepdic.com/weepingstatues.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeping_statue; faith healing http://thewordonthewordoffaithinfoblog.c...th-healer/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Popoffhttp://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Faith_healing; miracle of the sun falling from the sky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun; walking on hot coals/fire walking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewalking and so on.