Wednesday 6 December 2017

Everyday miracles


To know if you've ever experienced a miracle, you need to know what one is, so, what is a miracle? It is; 'an extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore attributed to a divine agency.'

So, have you ever seen one of those? 

I have. I am certain you have too. I have seen a leg grow right in front of my very eyes, I have seen a woman who's neck pain has disappeared. I have also seen trees grow, and babies develop. 
You may think it strange that I include those last two in the list. Why? 
They are everyday miracles that we just take for granted. They are indeed miracles, unexplainable events that no natural laws or scientific revelations can thoroughly explain.

Lets think about a plant. Science tells us the steps required for a seed to transform into a plant. It tells us that there are certain conditions which a seed requires in order to grow, science shows us the steps of change it goes through. However, it doesn't tell us why or how. 
Why not? Because science can't explain it! It's 'an extraordinary and unexplainable event'! Thinking about the seed, how does it become a plant? Is the resultant plant squashed up, compressed inside that seed? So that it's like one of those expandable flannels that you just add water to and they grow? Well, that can't be, a seed is too small in comparison with the fully grown plant. Plus if you dissect the seed you don't see a mini version of the plant inside it.
Yet, when you place the seed in the ground, it has sufficient water, warmth and sunlight, then the seed completely transforms. 
It changes irreversibly, you cannot reverse the process and squish it all back into the seed. The seed no longer exists, but transforms into something completely different. Isn't that incredible?!
How? Again there are no explanations for how, just that it happens . It happens and we accept it, yet it is an unexplainable, extraordinary event, a miracle that this occurs.

Next, we could consider the mind blowing reality that two single cells meet, multiply and become a human being. Most of us know something of the process, but HOW does it happen? We may know the stages of development, we accept that the cells multiply and become each part of a baby, but how on Earth do two cells become a living organism? That surely is, 'an extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws'. It blows my mind that two cells become a living breathing creature that has organs, limbs and a mind of its own. Science tells and shows us the step by step process that occurs, but I have never heard how or why those cells transform in the way they do. The cells transform completely from their previous state into something incredibly different, just like the seed. 

How incredible is the world around us. The growing of a seed, the growing of a baby are fundamentally unexplainable. We know these things happen, but we have no idea how they happen, we just accept that they do. If we cannot explain them naturally then surely there must be a divine agency at work!


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