Miracle days

Olive . Miracle by srepkela

Late last year, we looked at God in science, culminating in us hosting Manchester Science Festival's first church service.

We considered a miracle as an event that is unexplainable through science and reason and usually attributed to God, giving us a particular insight into God or bring people closer to God.

There are different types of miracle such as healings, raising from the dead, pregnancy, defying natural events and even talking donkeys. Favourite miracles within the group included feeding the five thousand, healing Jairus' daughter, legion, raising of Lazarus and turning water into wine.

We then considered science as being a philosophy, a way of thinking, which involves observation, reason and interdependence. It links cause and effect which allows outcomes to be predictable. It's a process of observation, hypothesis, measurement and conclusion in which assumptions are made and then further questioned.

Science can be used to explain some miracles but it does not necessarily mean that is how it happened. Science can also help us understand how far away from natural law God operates. For instance the changing water into wine can could be a trick or hypnosis or pure creative writing but if we were to rely on purely a chemical explanation, it is impossible. Not just a little impossible but mega impossible: for instance, carbon in the wine cannot just be made out of water as water contains no carbon.

The more we look at the world through science, the more it reveals just how complex the world of nature is. It's just amazing to sit back and look at the diversity and beauty of universe through the lens which science provides.