The least scientifically explainable miracle

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What do you think is the least scientifically explainable miracle and what do you have to support that?
 
We should keep this to Church approved miracles only to avoid issues!
 
What expertise does the Church have to deem something a miracle?
 
I mean they have a pretty strict approval process that seeks to ensure it is truly supernatural and not an ordinary phenomenon. I mean I guess it doesn’t really matter but I figure those would have the most scientific analysis?
 
The creation of the universe and life, every other miracle is minor by comparison.
 
The resurrection of Christ and my faith.

Not very helpful though :confused:

The Eucharistic miracle of Lanciano may interest you.
 
Why are miracles never up to the standard of Biblical miracles - people who have begun to decompose being raised from the dead? Hundreds of dead people wandering around being recognised by people? Walking on water? Parting seas? And why not really impressive ones like regrowing an amputated limb? Or people flying (repeatedly under controlled conditions)? Why are all modern ‘miracles’ things that happen naturally anyway like spontaneous remission of cancer?
 
Really? Are you saying there is actual evidence of these events? Something that would come up to even balance of probabilities in a court?
 
I would say that it would be pretty difficult for science to explain how the sun stood still for about a whole day and the moon stopped rotating about the earth. Joshua 10:13. Of course, this means that the earth suddenly stopped rotating as it is not the sun that moves, but it’s apparent movement is due to the rotation of the earth on its axis. Now if the earth stopped rotating, the atmosphere would still be in motion and rocks, trees, buildings would be swept away into the atmosphere. The spinning core in the center of the earth would stop and without the protective magnetic field, the radioactive rays would kill any life on earth. You would be thrown sideways at a speed of 1000 MPH, although if you were near the north or south pole you would not feel much. There would be huge tidal waves.
I don’t think that science can explain why these disasters did not happen when the sun stopped in the sky or more accurately, when the earth stopped rotating on its axis as the Bible says happened.

 
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But the problem with biblical miracles seems to be A. They are largely unprovable with no evidence of them occuring and B. The Bible is written allegorically in some places. Can you help me figure that out?
 
Deacon I really appreciate the response. Was Padre Pio miracles explored scientifically?
 
This means the world to me and I am so grateful for the time you’ve spent laying out his case I will read up on him and beg for his intercession! Thank you for a bit of hope in a dark time Deacon.
 
The thing is: if God intervenes in the natural order to do miracles, why are there not miracles that do not require faith to believe in them? With evidence that shows that nothing, absolutely nothing, except the power of God could have caused them? All claimed miracles of the modern world lack either the basic evidence of ‘could not happen naturally’ or ‘could not be performed by fraud’. We do this all the time in medicine as we test and re-test drugs and treatments. None of these claimed miracles would get anywhere near these standards. And if you require faith to believe in them, why on earth does God bother doing them, since only those with faith will believe?
 
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I’ve always wondered that as well. It’s part of what I’m having a hard time with!
 
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