The objection that science disproves miracles rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of both what scientific laws actually describe and what a miracle claims to be. Natural science, by its very definition, observes, measures, and describes the regular, repeatable patterns of physical behavior within an isolated, closed system of cause and effect; laws of nature do not cause anything to happen, nor do they possess prescriptive authority to forbid an outside agent from acting upon the system. As C.S. Lewis famously illustrated, the laws of arithmetic dictate that if you put ten dollars in a drawer on Monday and ten dollars in on Tuesday, you will have twenty dollars on Wednesday—unless a thief reaches into the drawer and takes five dollars; the thief does not break the laws of arithmetic, but rather introduces a new, external causal factor that arithmetic faithfully accounts for. Similarly, a miracle is not an absurd internal malfunction or self-contradiction within nature, but the intentional intervention of an outside, transcendent Agent into the natural order He originally established and actively sustains. If philosophical naturalism is presumed from the start—assuming that the physical universe is a completely closed box and all that exists—then miracles are ruled out by dogmatic circular reasoning rather than scientific evidence; however, if an eternal, personal God created the cosmos, time, space, and the laws of physics out of nothing, then the miraculous act of raising a body from the dead, multiplying bread, or parting a sea is well within the sovereign capability of the One who holds every subatomic particle together by the word of His power. The ChristianChristian refers to a follower of Jesus Christ — someone who believes in His death and resurrection, trusts Him as Lord and Savior, and lives under the New Covenant through the Holy Spirit. The term first appears in Antioch to describe disciples whose lives reflected Christ (Acts 11:26). More does not reject scientific laws, but recognizes that those very laws point to a rational, orderly Lawgiver who is entirely free to introduce a new event into His own creation whenever His divine redemptive purposes require it.
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