"Is it irrational to believe in miracles?"
"Is it irrational to believe in miracles?" By Christopher L. Reese, Op-ed contributor Christian Post, Philosophers and sociologists have observed that in the wake of the European Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries, we now live in a disenchanted age. Many modern people believe the universe is governed exclusively by impersonal physical laws, and that the sacred and transcendent are illusory ideas belonging to a bygone era. According to Richard Dawkins, for example: "The 19th century is the last time when it was possible for an educated person to admit to believing in miracles like the virgin birth without embarrassment. When pressed, many educated Christians are too loyal to deny the virgin birth and the resurrection. But it embarrasses them because their rational minds know that it is absurd, so they would much rather not be asked." Some who propose to speak for Christianity adopt the same viewpoint. Lutheran theologian and New Testament scholar Rudolph B...
