• Someone posted this recently. • Miracles were never a big selling point on my agenda, but they do distance ancient scripture from the modern mind and its way of understanding. I don’t have a problem with the different ways of seeing the world and events of the world between the classical, medieval, or modern mind. • But this brings me to Arthur C. Clark’s third law, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” • Star Trek is a fantasy, but for a moment imagine the world of Star Trek could happen. I can imagine the possibility of miracles of the Bible would hardly faze the denizens of a Star Trek civilization. “Water into wine? …Did he have a portable replicator?” “Raising the dead? By cloning, like Spock, or with rejuvenator nanites?” Other miracles, like lighting altars on fire and healing leprosy or blindness would be trivial by even today’s technology. • As far as this “gotcha” cartoon. Even in our own time women, surrogates, carry babies to full term. I imagine that a virgin with the proper plumbing could do as well. • Historically I would think that the stories of miracles would have been the most believable in the classical and medieval world. With the modern, came mechanical explanations for events. By the early 20th century there was a smugness that we had an understanding, at least a basic understanding, of how the world worked: mechanically. That understanding told us what was possible and what was impossible. Bible stories were just superstition. • As we plow our way into the future of technological possibilities, miracles of the Bible may become more, not less, credible
Posted on: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:24:11 +0000
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