Craig Keener, Michael Shermer & Elijah Stephens and a video with Sean McDowell interviewing Craig Keener called Latest Evidence for Modern Miracles. What problems are you interested in? Even if you said it had to be supernatural, how could you rule out Loki doing it, just for fun? She's on her deathbed,'" Strobel explained. Scott Rae: -semi anti-supernatural vibes. In his book, The Case for Miracles, evangelist Lee Strobel cites the miraculous healing of Barbara Snyder that took place nearly 30 years ago. A good response to this particular study is by Steven Novella at **Proximal Intercessory Prayer: Lets take the following hypothetical study: The study included 24 subjects who were all treated openly with the intervention in question. You can get a free, one-month trialhere. But God often heals us here and yet when he does it we don't always recognize that it is God because of our world view here. Now, I know you can read headlines so you know this was a study of proximal intercessory prayer, but the point is even if you assess the details of the study divorced from knowledge of what the intervention is, it should be obvious that this study tells us nothing. an 18-year-old female lost the majority of her central vision over the course of three months in 1959 and was later diagnosed with juvenile macular degeneration (JMD). It is suitable for those who love nice illustrations. Adapted from Editorial Theme html5up.net | @ajlkn, ago "This male voice coming from the corner of the room where nobody was said, 'Get up, my child, and walk,'" Strobel recounted. into our next chapter, said McRobbie, who is also the president of Indiana And then some months later war came to her hometown in [inaudible] and she had to flee again. That's such a good way to frame that. his term as board chair this Junewill lead a national search for her Is it a miracle? Meanwhile, her muscles were atrophied. Craig Keener: Well if you ask me what motivated me to write a 1000 page book on miracles I could say nothing because I wasn't planning to do it initially, but it was certainly one of the most enjoyable projects I've worked on. Barbara R. Snyderis president of the Association of American Universities. The maternal mortality rate in childbirth is so much higher there. Chris Gunderson who was born with an incurable disorder called Chronic Pseudo Obstruction Syndrome, which was cured by prayer. Knowledge falls on a continuum. Scott Rae: I'd say that's quite a footnote! Both great books that I encourage all of our listeners to get hold of and to digest. Strobel went on to explain that he interviewed skeptics and believers, alike, and included their perspectives in The Case for Miracles. At the end of the project, Strobel said he was shocked to learn that miracles are not only common, but also well-documented. Keener: in terms of anomalies whether they're anomalies or whether they're explainable in some way it helps if there's a pattern. DiSanto said that he would provide additional updates regarding the search James: I'm not a fan of eliminating explanations because i think that that's almost impossible because you can always augment the hypothesis with further details, so the issue is going to be one of comparative plausibility and explanatory scope. Craig Keener: Which is her first language. Also we need to know what happens when there is no treatment as a control. Its consultants have assisted with the recruitment of multiple senior CWRU What is that? [4], Following the announcement that Gordon Gee would retire as President of the Ohio State University effective July 1, 2013, speculation arose that Snyder, the former Provost and Executive Vice President of Ohio State, could succeed Gee. "So she basically pulls the tube out of her throat, says, 'Go find my parents' [and] jumps out of bed.". So she basically pulls the tube out of her throat, says, Go find my parents [and] jumps out of bed.. In response, Snyder said, "I am proud to be president of Case Western Reserve and intend to continue in this role for many years to come. Otherwise, not. Medine was a war refugee for 18 months in her country of Congo. And he said he prays for people here in the U.S., but it doesn't happen. 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. She is the former president of Case Western Reserve University. As James pointed out, individual testimony is irrelevant. One of the remarkable stories recounted in Lee Strobel's book "The Case for Miracles" involves a hopelessly ill woman named Barbara Snyder, who had suffered for many years with multiple sclerosis. Which I agree with, at least technically. They dont want you to see this Big Tech does its best to limit what news you see. It should further be noted that the subjects in the study were not chosen from the random population but from a self-selected group that already believe in the efficacy of the treatment. Edwin Booth, perhaps unfairly known today as the brother of assassin John Wilkes Booth, was once upon a time . That's what he was praying for. Advertisement. Well I shouldn't say everybody, but lots of people have love stories. A prolific author, he has written numerous bible commentaries and other works in biblical studies, in addition to his 2 volume work, Miracles. Craig Keener: Yes. But she, but it happened. Subsequent medical records document repeated substantial improvement. randomized controlled studies, well considered controls, etc) to avoid these confounders. And, in fact, one doctor described her as being one of the most hopelessly ill patients he'd ever encountered.. If miracles are real then these steps -- while possibly inconvenient -- would be easy to demonstrate. 2023 Robert L. White All Rights Reserved. And so he's already saying in his ministry the Kingdom is being expressed. Look, I have male pattern balding. 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Her doctors have written about her seemingly impossible medical turn around. This example is a category 1 miracle claim. She deteriorated over a period of many years, several operations, many hospitalizations," Strobel explained. They're not replicable but if there's a pattern like nine times out of ten where this happens it's in the context of prayer, that should say something. This shows a profound lack of imagination on the part of the investigators, and I think shows their hand. He encountered scores of healings and other claims of the miraculous along the way, but there was one case in particular that truly blew his mind: the case of Barbara Snyder. So it seems to me you can't discount it all. As I've said before, the fact that there are no videos of this sort is strong evidence against the veracity of miracles. 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. Barbara Snyder (Barbara Cummiskey Snyder) healed from multiple sclerosis. It's not the fullness. Also there is this general trend of naturalism in which you are looked down upon if you believe that the supernatural can occur so there is this whole culture at play where the medical community is working against finding truth". Thinking about the Snyder "miracle", I do wonder why in these cases there isn't much more extensive medical documentation? You wont want to miss Scotts interview with Dr. Craig Keener, renowned New Testament scholar, who has done in depth research on miracles today. Then he was prayed for and was instantly healed, could eat, and have his tubes removed. Intercessory prayer commences and one day he awakes to find his or her arm back on their body, intact. Craig Keener: I think it's true in some places more than in others. "This was an instantaneous healing of all of her symptoms and all of her illness to the point where 31 years later she's completely healthy," Strobel said. We don't get to choose what our test is. undergraduate and graduate students alike receive a world-class education. "Barbara Snyder was diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic with multiple sclerosis. This is like the difference between theists asking skeptics to explain how the disciples ate fish with Jesus, when in reality what we have to explain is that we have a text that has a story where the disciples ate fish with Jesus. Thu 03 February 2022 In An immediate thought is how many times was he prayed over and nothing happened? None of us would say that all of those are authentic, but still we're talking about an awful lot of stories. If someone says a treatment works, even at the 1% level, it is tested carefully to see if it works -- especially if there are no obvious side effects. We use cookies to better understand website visitors, for advertising, and to offer you a better experience. But I'm grateful for the, the engagement that's come since then because there has been a lot of good engagement and people have taken it seriously and taken to heart some of the arguments in it. To this day.. If there's that many cases there should be enough regularity to detect these things statistically which is exactly the tools we've developed in science to do and to rule out other factors. We're here at the meetings at the Evangelical Theological Society talking with Dr. Craig Keener. "One day, one of her friends called WMBI, which is the radio station in Chicago run by the Moody Bible Institute, and said, 'Pray for Barbara. All rights reserved. Her energy, integrity, and powerful commitment to collaboration have led to progress and partnerships that would have been unimaginable when she first arrived.. The way people like the stories highlights their way of thinking and provides a teachable moment about like why don't we trust claims just from the claims, even if it has a peer-reviewed journal article. 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. I mean not that it was deliberately anti-supernatural, but it was deliberately non-supernatural. episode: Is there medical evidence for miracles? This male voice coming from the corner of the room where nobody was said, 'Get up my child and walk, Strobel recounted. The deaf will hear. Certainly months in the case of severe atrophy over the course of years. James Fodor suggests, as an example, doing the prayer studies in different languages to help rule out some of the competing effects. It got to the point where she was dying. So the first part of the answer is sort of true but trivial and also not what they've been doing but then the second part contradicts that by saying "just assume that it's true anyway and start praying for people." READ ALSO: Are the Biblical End Times Upon Us? 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. So we're talking about something like hundreds of millions of people. In some of these cases, I'm expecting evidence that should be there if the claim is true. Honestly, this mistake is primarily due to sloppy reporting -- if you are reporting a set of numbers in a study, especially if you are establishing a timeline of events, you need to make it clear when some numbers are not comparable. No one in medicine evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment from case studies alone, or even primarily due to case studies. I wrote about some of these cases in another post and I've written about miracles many times. From Send Proof Elijah StephensI didn't realize how difficult it would be [to find evidence for miracle healings]. Barbara Snyder (Barbara Cummiskey Snyder) - healed from multiple sclerosis The institution that is referenced for the work is Global Medical Research Institute (GMRI) and the documentary about miracles referenced is Send Proof. A lot of these things were published in Asia. life, President Snyder said. patient on hospice healed by Jesus. I want this post to be the place where I put as many of the specific miracle claims, the actual evidence presented, and some of the responses. And of course, accounts from the west, it was easier to get the medical documentation so there were strengths with a lot of these. Barbara Snyder's healing from MS shocked doctors. Elijah: I think this: the fact that there are fake miracles does not preclude the fact that there can be real miracles. Brian: Essentially Shermer's complaint about prayer being done and nothing happening is part what you would have in any kind of controlled study because you would have the case looking at all prayer events and which ones had effects and which ones didn't, that's the basic thing they seem unable to even grasp that idea and it shows a certain unwillingness to actually try to find the truth and to rule out these actual alternatives. He wrote to the Social Security Administration saying, "I'm not blind anymore." She graduated from the University of Chicago School of Law, where she served as executive editor of the law review. Scott Rae: Right. Barbara Rook "Babs" Snyder is an American academic and president of the Association of American Universities. Strobel said that he has long believed that Jesus performed the miracles described in the Gospels. I don't think that there's an abridged version of that coming out anytime soon. perhaps a misdiagnosis of Stargardt's disease, and a gradual improvement for other reasons. Biography [ edit] It is for these sorts of problems that randomized controlled studies are developed and are necessary to distinguish effect from non-effect. We average between 2 and 3 posts a day. It's just like a lack of imagination there's just like Christian fundamentalism and there's atheist naturalism and there's no other world views, apparently. Barbara Cummiskey Snyder is on Facebook. This highlights many of the problems I've been talking about and we get to see it in real-time. Sometimes there really isn't enough available evidence to substantiate a claim. Kamil makes the interesting point that the testimonies of different religions only reflect what that particular religion has as a theological component. A doctor won't want to look at a regrown kidney because it will look like he did insurance fraud. These are two red flags which will need some level of caution in establishing the cause of the condition improving. To mix them makes it much harder to determine what's going on. The problem is trying to determine whether a particular action or treatment actually causes the subsequent (positive) results. So welcome. Bizarrely, her calves were inflated and her once-atrophied muscles worked again and thats not all. Further, the authors admit, although they do not disclose the data, that previous attempts to document response to the treatment in other populations have failed. Why not? In my discussion with Jonathan McLatchie on the Still Unbelievable podcast, I said that there hasnt been a verified miracle claim even since Humes essay on miracles. So what made you want to go in this direction? Snyder, who became president of Case Western Reserve She actually had to have a breathing tube because even her diaphragm didn't work on its own. Strobel, 66, is a former investigative journalist with the Chicago Tribune. We know better now, and we often know what the minimum amount of data is to justify a particular claim. This is the pattern we see of something that is non-existent, and the healings follow this exact same pattern. I, sometimes I'll joke it's obvious looking at me that healing doesn't always happen. He encountered scores of healings and other claims of the miraculous along the way, but there was one case in particular that truly blew his mind: the case of Barbara Snyder. And now she has a Masters degree from the seminary in Cameroon. Here's where consistency comes in and the desiderata of Jaynes. In his most recent book, Strobel decided to look at miracles. university facing significant debt, disaffected alumni, and deep concern about What is being missed here is it shouldn't matter what the skeptic says -- the evidence should be strong enough to convince the skeptic. James: Keener says simultaneously that there are hundreds of millions of cases but also that none of this can be replicated. He has a Ph.D. and M.A. Without further data, it is impossible to rule out these things, but you'd think the data would be available with something this recent? That we all will be ultimately healed if we have trust in Jesus because we'll be with him forever. We really appreciate your taking the time to come be on the podcast with us. But there, the book is just full, both volumes, full of these remarkable stories like this. And that was, that was really hard. But she starts dancing around, jumping around. Since these diseases are genetic, it makes it a lot less likely that she had this condition. Scott Rae: This has been an episode of the podcast Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture. Craig Keener: In Christian circles it's been received really, really well. Try comparing these claims to, say, the difficulty in confirming the Higgs boson, gravity waves, black holes, or the accelerating universe. None of these steps are taken in any of these cases. Craig Keener: Yeah, she came on a fiance visa, which unfortunately took a bit longer than it should have because by the time we finally made up our minds to get together 9/11 happened right when we were getting ready to send the materials in. The dead will be raised." James points out that God seems to choose not to use all his abilities -- he could heal amputees, even while someone is in an MRI, but chooses note to. Author and evangelist Lee Strobel was once an atheist who served as the legal affairs editor for the Chicago Tribune before embarking on a quest to try and disprove Christianityan effort that ironically led him to embrace faith. He wasn't praying for healing of his physical vision, but when the Lord healed his mind, he opened his eyes and he could see. So I got what I could. Case Western Reserves Board of Trustees I made a number of these errors in the episode, and I think it is because 1) the scientific papers (rightly) don't use names and 2) when the stories are told they don't cite their sources well and 3) I'm terrible with names. I mean I, at the beginning I was expecting to find some reports of different kinds of healings that had already been collected in the booked. President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that she will A lot of accounts have been published from Asia. Sure. Scott Rae: Nabeel Qureshi, for the sake of our listeners who might not be aware of him, was one of the most, the most compelling apologists to Islam having converted to Christianity out of Islam himself. Also, the theists show a profound lack of imagination in coming up with studies that can test the involvement of an agent, while ruling out other effects. It's not enough to be given the treatment and see an improvement afterward. What do atheists think of Barbara Snyder, who was healed of all her symptoms and all her illness to the point where 31 years later she's completely healthy? I'm just wondering, is it possible to do it the other way around? Scott Rae: Well that gets us to the books that I want to talk more about today. Craig Keener: In Matthew 11 and Luke Chapter 7, John the Baptist sends to Jesus because he hears the works of Jesus, he hears of these healings taking place and he says, "Are you the one the come or shall we wait for somebody else?" There were plenty of other stories just like it, too. Someone in the chat asked "do all of Keener's cases differ as much from what actually was reported to what was reported by him?" Christians) than other groups. But we also had the medical documentation. Join us for this fascinating discussion of miracles today. AAU board chair Michael McRobbie said Snyder was a natural choice I could just as well say that her brushing her teeth caused the healing, because she was healed in the evening shortly after she brushed her teeth. A document going through these particular medical statements with citations can be found here. 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. I think a lot of times people will see something as a miracle because we're inclined to believe in miracles, you can also have confirmation bias to say I'm inclined not to see this as a miracle because I just don't think those things happen. 1) A young soldier loses a limb in a battle and the limb is destroyed. He didn't see any fire so people are getting [inaudible] what's this about? We're talking about a lot of evidence. He seems really swayed by anecdotal evidence in everything he's written or said, from my experience. Then a decade or so later, a replication study by Dr. William S. Harris and colleagues was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Were the results similar? This was a gold standard study of the effects of intercessory prayer on almost a thousand consecutively admitted coronary patients. And the reason Usually people don't get medical documentation even when it's available. She's had no recurrence. A comparison of base-rates is needed and Keener doesn't seem to care about this when it comes to miracles. It was predicted that she would die soon. Bad Apologetics Ep 20 - Miracles & even MORE even NEWER Resurrection evidence, Unbelievable? The Association of American Universities (AAU), Fostering and Protecting Free Speech on Campus, Renew Investments in Vital Scientific Infrastructure, AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis, Progress Toward Achieving Systemic Change, The Strategic Role of a National Organization. And this is not by any means the most dramatic story I found. it can be also given as a nice gift to your friends, relatives, boyfriend or girlfriend. He has a Ph.D. and M.A. Her feet and fingers were suddenly straight and normal again. Now normally somebody's healed, they're still gonna have, their muscles are still going to be atrophied if they've been unable to walk for a long time. I mean these were mainstream Evangelical Christians and anyway, some of the critiques, and actually some of the praises from the Christians showed that they hadn't actually read the book either. #media. My oldest grandson loves to run and is always racing ahead, scampering up hills and sliding down ravines faster than the rest. I could show you cases of arms growing back theoretically speaking and you would not believe it you would come up with natural explanations. Is this case unusual? Once you admit that getting a pool table after prayer is a miracle, then you've admitted that your standards of evidence are outrageously poor. View the profiles of people named Barbara Snyder. Despite several operations and treatments, Barbara continued to deteriorate to the point that she was put into respite with doctor's orders not to resuscitate. Here's my comment. In his book, The Case for Miracles, evangelist Lee Strobel cites the miraculous healing of Barbara Snyder that took place nearly 30 years ago. diagnosis by the Mayo Clinic, her condition declined over the next 15 years. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky. This one is much like the previous one, but there is no study -- just the stories. 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. my peers call to work on behalf of all of our institutions.. They were saying "This is all from Congo. But theists show no interest in doing this, they're satisfied with the first bad study that confirms what they already believe. 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." This is special pleading -- wanting to hold their claims to a lower standard than other claims. However studies also show about 80% of ER nurses and 64% of ER doctors believe lunar cycles affect patients' mental health, even though the data do not support such an effect. And Jesus answers him with words from Isaiah 35 and Isaiah 61 saying, "The disabled will walk. We had to cut 45% of it to make it as short as it was, but then again, I'm not known for writing short books. 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. 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