So how much evidence really is enough? Kamil: so he basically said, look the way we do it is that we have, let's say seven different possible explanations, six of them are naturalistic which we can disconfirm using science and then the seventh is the explanation that God did it. He says, he's going back to these passages about the coming of the [inaudible] and saying, "John, these are signs of the Kingdom right now." And so I guess my first question is, what motivated you to undertake that because your field has been pretty technical New Testament studies. However, after analyzing several miracles Strobel is convinced they are. So if I'm dealing with historic, historiographic questions, historical reliability questions, I needed to deal with the issue of whether these kinds of things could happen. There are any examples of this, so see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15166467/ and https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/full-moon-does-not-affect-mental-health-emergency-room-study-suggests as a couple. Barbara Snyder was diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic with multiple sclerosis. I mean I tried to get accounts from all sorts of different cultures. Adapted from Editorial Theme html5up.net | @ajlkn, If there's one thing I hope this film does for people that are inside of the Christian faith is that it makes them confident enough to go pray for sick people in impossible situations because that is a means to knowledge as well. We have previously pointed out that the kind of coincidences you'd dismiss as bad writing if you saw them in a movie happen all the time in real life. 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Synder's miraculous healing , which unfolded more than 30 years ago, was apparently so shocking that even her doctors have written about her seemingly impossible medical . his term as board chair this Junewill lead a national search for her We make a mistake in the episode here about corrected vs uncorrected vision measurements. Craig Keener: Probably what surprised me the most was the real evidence for it. Could it be an illusion? My initial thought was that , A physics problem from a practice AP test came to my attention, when my daughter was in AP physics this past spring. And so that's kind of what prompted me to investigate this issue.. We wouldn't conclude that these things actually happened as reported, especially given the gaps in the timelines. Or in Matthew 12 and Luke 11 where is says, "If I by the finger of the Spirit of God drive out demons, the Kingdom of God has come upon you." They were saying "This is all from Congo. Snyder, who became president of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in July 2007, will join the Association of American Universities (AAU) by the end . The conventional wisdom that we hear kind of over and over again is that the prevalence of miraculous activity, is much more the developing world than it is in the west. She never quotes her doctors about her condition, and provides no documentation whatsoever -- there is simply nothing to work with. A particular response has now happened twice in an ongoing discussion about extraordinary claims, and I felt I needed to think about it more deeply. It also points to placebo as a possible contributor to the perceived magnitude of the improvement -- the amount of improvement is likely to be perceived to be higher given the expectation. UFO sightings happened all the time in the 1970s and 1980s but suddenly drop when we put cameras in everyone's pocket? However, it is a fallacy to say that, because we could in principle have better evidence, we therefore do not have good or sufficient evidence. #media. The precise timing of Snyders It's not something to feel badly about. After a year or two of investigation they finally concluded, and we have all of the medical documentation, that no, he had, the way they put it in their letter from the Social Security Administration, "You have received a remarkable return of your visual acuity, therefore, you are no longer qualified for disability." in Old Testament from Dallas Theological Seminary, and a B.A.S. episode says, if i'm not mistaken the one that Herbert Benson conducted was that when they were trying to recruit people they were having trouble getting certain participants that all the protestant participants were from the unity school of christianity which actually doesn't believe in miracles and so you know they had a limit it's not the ideal way to conduct a prayer study, if there's a pattern like nine times out of ten where this happens it's in the context of prayer that that should say something again we we need a whole lot of a whole lot of cases to be able to to examine that. I use some basic principles. "But my skepticism didn't go away.". It also calls into question the motives of God -- God is more concerned to give you a pool table than to cure leukemia in children or heart defects or nearly anything else. Justin: why do you feel sympathetic to the view that what they're finding is evidence for supernatural healing rather than just extraordinary somewhat unexplained events ? Medical science has come a long way recognizing the fact that humans are easily fooled, they see patterns and agency where there isn't any good evidence, and biology is messy enough that uncertainty is always something to consider. A legal scholar, Snyder was the first woman to serve as the Case Western's president. These are two red flags which will need some level of caution in establishing the cause of the condition improving. But she starts dancing around, jumping around. Sometimes God uses things. Strobel, 66, is a former investigative journalist with the Chicago Tribune. God could choose methods that are not so easily confused with memory biases, measurement errors, and other distortions and it is suspicious that he doesn't operate that way. Or even the most dramatic story I found from somebody that I or my wife knows, but this one was particularly mind blowing to me because Antoinette Malumbay was my mother-in-law and Terese is my sister-in-law. We would not believe any medical claim that didn't have these properties, so we are not having too high of a standard -- we are just refusing to lower the standard in these cases. He is the F.M. Synder's miraculous healing, which unfolded more than 30 years ago, was apparently so shocking that even her doctors have written about her seemingly impossible medical turn-around. The problem is trying to determine whether a particular action or treatment actually causes the subsequent (positive) results. Here's my comment. Never miss a big news story again. She It's not impossible under theism, but it is an odd omission and speaks to God's motivation. We originally met when we were, she was an exchange student and I was doing my PhD in New Testament at Duke. There is nothing even close to an arm growing back. She was born on April 10, 1930 in Beverly, MA, a daughter of John A. and Irene (Walsh) Burns. Look, I have male pattern balding. It also includes the audio recording of Duane Miller as he is being spontaneously healed of his permanent, severe vocal chord damage. Nathan's point here is interesting, especially in light of the idea that the murderer example is not being used in the right place, that Elijah has this set of standard "tools" that he pulls out but doesn't seem to understand their use or limitations and is prone to misapply them. After his conversion, Lee worked briefly as a pastor before moving into an apologetics ministry focusing on writing and video productions. We are interested in the truth and are aware of many other factors (e.g. Studies of distant intercessory prayer have been essentially negative we see the typical random scatter of results expected of an ineffective treatment, with no consistent pattern of positive results, and with the best studies being negative. Given the number of miracle claims, and the bold claims of Christians throughout these videos, and the proliferation of cameras in people's pockets, there should be thousands of convincing videos of miracles. The first step -- which the theists have not achieved -- is to just demonstrate that there is a real effect to be investigated. Western Reserves president has been the greatest professional privilege of my Pharmaceutical companies don't complain about these steps, they just do the work. President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that she will become the next leader of the organization that represents the 63 leading research universities in the U.S., as well as two in Canada. There isn't anything that could tie the prayer as the causal element, given that she was most likely prayed for often an we're picking out the one case before a claimed recovery. That is directly below. I wear glasses. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. "It got to the point where she was dying. It was assumed that Stargardt's disease was the best fit for her symptoms, but she has no family history for this genetic condition. First of all, is that true? What would happen if two people out in space a few meters apart, abandoned by their spacecraft, decided to wait until gravity pulled them together? This is special pleading -- wanting to hold their claims to a lower standard than other claims. You can see why these stories are powerful and you can see why people really get motivated by them nd so i think it is important to respond to them because of that. These steps are in place to get at the truth, not to specifically put up barriers to rule out miracles. Then, on Pentecost Sunday, two of Synder's friends read her letters from those praying for her. There's a long list of reasons for this poorly understood condition. And again, the group that received prayer had better outcomes than the control group. (p. 127). We will be fully healed with our resurrection bodies. Kamil points out that there is a mismatch between the magnitude of the claim and the attention they pay to documenting it. "So, we know that at least 450 Christians began praying for her, because they wrote letters saying, 'We're praying for you.'". Patients in the prayer group had less congestive heart failure, fewer cardiac arrests, fewer episodes of pneumonia, were less often intubated and ventilated, and needed less diuretic and antibiotic therapy. Though he believed the Biblical stories of Christs miracles, Strobel was less convinced miracles were happening today. And we give Glory to God whenever we get the opportunity to be a part of those, but it's, we don't expect that, that the Kingdom, that we'll have experienced the Kingdom in its fullest now. So we're talking about something like hundreds of millions of people. How would you eliminate the hypothesis that a miracle did in fact happen? Craig Keener: Yeah. As James pointed out, individual testimony is irrelevant. unblinded) studies were better. By signing up to the Blaze News newsletter you agree to receive electronic communications from Blaze Media that may sometimes include advertisements or sponsored content. These responses just seem so, I don't know, juvenile to me like it's like they haven't thought about these issues. The 1974 measurement is 20/100 compared to legally blind at 20/200 (uncorrected) which is still quite poor and far from being "restored", but still a large improvement from her measured 7/200 mentioned earlier. Plus these were not from people who burned child witches or anything like that. Is it a miracle? 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Don't presume what I'll believe, show me evidence of an arm growing back first, then perhaps we'll see -- but I'd need the proper controls. But again, it's a sign. We also can't rule out that he was prayed for many many times in 16 years, and only at this particular time for some other reason he recovered. Keener: what is specific about that data that suggests it isn't just a fluke you know one of those one in a million things that just happens sometimes yeah anomalies occur so it's important to look for an accumulation of anomalies so you don't just have what could be a coincidence. The fact that there are only two or three of these, that these are the best they have, given all of this time is damning evidence against their case that miracles actually occur at even the 1% level. but there comes a point when enough is enough. The response is, essentially, that I am demanding too much evidence. We use cookies to better understand website visitors, for advertising, and to offer you a better experience. It's not [inaudible] a short book. She talked about when here daughter Terese was two years old that she cried out that she had been bitten by a snake and by the time her mother had got to her she found her not breathing. I think people sitting back and watching kind of don't take into account that this is life-changing stuff that's happening to these people. This doesn't affect the doctor reports, but the personal reports. The outcome was either a change in vision or hearing. She deteriorated over a period of many years, several operations, many hospitalizations," Strobel explained. Prior to that, she served as president of Case Western Reserve University from 2007 to 2020, where sheencouraged interdisciplinary excellence, catalyzed institutional collaboration, and reinvigorated alumni engagement and fundraising. What about single cases? The situation was pretty hopeless until something quite shocking happened. Has it been confirmed? So tell our listeners some of the stories that you uncovered as a result of your research. The protocol also calls for multiple interventions if initial treatments are not effective essentially the subjects receive repeat treatments as long as possible until they report a response. Join Facebook to connect with Barbara Snyder and others you may know. James Fodor suggests, as an example, doing the prayer studies in different languages to help rule out some of the competing effects. It makes it very hard to investigate these claims because you have to spend so much time trying to work out what is actually established. Keener: in terms of anomalies whether they're anomalies or whether they're explainable in some way it helps if there's a pattern. And sometimes, well it's wonderful when God does it and when he doesn't we still know that we have that hope. 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