They are claiming there is a causal effect, they are claiming that these things happen regularly enough to be observed, yet they want to hide behind the idea that it is somewhat random and not actually try to test it. I had a lot of connections with Africa, different parts of Africa. Scott Rae: And then she made it safely to the U.S. and then you were reunited again. Well I shouldn't say everybody, but lots of people have love stories. She has extensive experience in reinforcing Case Western Reserves in economics from Southern Methodist University. (Read also:Are the Biblical End Times upon us? Sometimes there really isn't enough available evidence to substantiate a claim. And so he's already saying in his ministry the Kingdom is being expressed. We make a mistake in the episode here about corrected vs uncorrected vision measurements. Without further data, it is impossible to rule out these things, but you'd think the data would be available with something this recent? Personally I like looking into the details of miracle claims because they spotlight the scientific process, when it is misused or when people try to use the authority of science but don't want to go through the admittedly hard work to earn it. J.P. Moreland points out that, well this was a number of years ago, maybe 10 years ago, he pointed out that in the previous three decades about 70% of all Evangelical growth had been due to signs and wonders. The response we get is to say "Well what you have to do is you have to compare explanations and see which one's the best" and it's like "Right! I had been an Atheist before my conversion. So it seems to me you can't discount it all. 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. And sometimes, well it's wonderful when God does it and when he doesn't we still know that we have that hope. She actually had to have a breathing tube because even her diaphragm didn't work on its own. 5 John Wilkes Booth's Brother and Abe Lincoln's Son . Her doctors have written about her seemingly impossible medical turn around. in Old Testament from Dallas Theological Seminary, and a B.A.S. such profound challenges across so many fronts, I felt an obligation to answer False reporting? The first question is, are there real miracles that get recorded on video. And Coco [inaudible] prayed and Terese started breathing again and the next day she was fine. You look at the seven churches of Asia in the Book of Revelation. Healings, casting out spirits, nature miracles in Mark and so on. That we all will be ultimately healed if we have trust in Jesus because we'll be with him forever. Prayer, in her house, probably occurs even more frequently. This barely qualifies as a pilot study. She's on her deathbed," Strobel explained. As she listened, she said that she heard a male voice coming from the corner of the room a voice she now believes was God. it can be also given as a nice gift to your friends, relatives, boyfriend or girlfriend. 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. I mean Grant still prayed for healing all his life. Is it possible to start by eliminating the theistic hypothesis? As she listened, she said that she heard a male voice coming from the corner of the rooma voice she now believes was God. When I've heard the murderer analogy it is to argue against Hume's uniform human experience against miracles, because someone could argue for the murderer by claiming it is against his uniform experience to murder someone -- he's never murdered anyone before. The Mayo Clinic had diagnosed Barbara with multiple sclerosis. She heard a voice saying, "My child, rise up and walk." But even with miracles, life expectancy is higher here than in Africa. He died of stomach cancer at a, I think what was he? Even if you said it had to be supernatural, how could you rule out Loki doing it, just for fun? But she, but it happened. Can you give me some examples? One of the first widely publicized studies was by Dr. Randolph Byrd, published in 1988 in the peer-reviewed Southern Medical Journal, she said. The conventional wisdom that we hear kind of over and over again is that the prevalence of miraculous activity, is much more the developing world than it is in the west. The trick is you have to dig a lot to get the actual facts of the matter, they don't typically present these to you like "here's the facts, and this is why we think it is a miracle" it's "the guy's intestine regrew" but that's not an established fact at all that's their interpretation of a certain set of facts. Done! That's what he was praying for. 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." There may be a difference between the way they look at things now vs the way they looked at it at the time of the event -- which is perfectly explainable under naturalism. Thinking about the Snyder "miracle", I do wonder why in these cases there isn't much more extensive medical documentation? So how much evidence really is enough? There were plenty of other stories just like it, too. Elijah: I think this: the fact that there are fake miracles does not preclude the fact that there can be real miracles. As you may expect, the studio's ruse is eventually found out, Lina never makes movies again and Kathy becomes a star and happily hooks up with the leading man. 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. It involves Barbara Snyder and took place nearly 30 years ago. He didn't see any fire so people are getting [inaudible] what's this about? At this point anyone with any reasonable familiarity with how to assess the quality of medical studies should see that this is a worthless study. Earlier in her career, she served as provost of Ohio State University. Craig Keener: Thanks so much for having me Scott. However, it is a fallacy to say that, because we could in principle have better evidence, we therefore do not have good or sufficient evidence. I confess I haven't made it through all 1000 pages. Nine out of ten with prayer is the meaning of replicable, so I don't know what he really is thinking when he says miracles are not replicable. We we need a whole lot of a whole lot of cases to be able to to examine that. He is the author of 24 books and there's a couple of books that I want to talk to you about today, Craig. We also can't rule out that he was prayed for many many times in 16 years, and only at this particular time for some other reason he recovered. It just really annoys me this is always conflated. The emotional language in the paper is a little unusual for a medical journal, and seems a bit sensationalist. And then I said "In Jesus's name, Amen" and so we moved on. The study mentioned by Strobel in the video above, and the one I mention in relation to healings of deafness and blindness and how it compares (very favorably) to hypnosis studies, The following is a section from Strobels book that references some of the gold standard scientific studies that show the effectiveness of prayer, which I briefly mentioned in the podcast. The good news will be preached to the poor. Nathan: I think what we're seeing here are the fruits of apologetics in some ways. 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. One needs larger than \(N=1\) to establish these effects -- which is why case studies are so ineffective at doing so. "To this day.". And again, the group that received prayer had better outcomes than the control group. (p. 127). I doubt Keener has tried to actually get this done beyond the anecdotal level. And, in fact, one doctor described her as being one of the most hopelessly ill patients he'd ever encountered.. achievements during Snyders tenure include: Association of American Universities (AAU), Maltz Center donors, performers celebrate Phase II, School of Medicine graduate program information tabling event, Summer study abroad with CWRU faculty information session, New study reveals ketamine could be effective treatment for cocaine-use disorders, Get to know members of the National Pan-Hellenic Council at CWRU: Week 3, Begun with a $1 billion goal, it ultimately raised. At over 2 billion Christians, praying many times, if this was a real effect at the 1% level we'd expect millions of documented cases yearly -- certainly a large enough signal to experimentally verify. 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. Patients in the prayer group had less congestive heart failure, fewer cardiac arrests, fewer episodes of pneumonia, were less often intubated and ventilated, and needed less diuretic and antibiotic therapy. in Old Testament from Dallas Theological Seminary, and a B.A.S. Meanwhile, her muscles were atrophied. She wanted to be with her family even though there was a war going on. He doesn't seem to understand the ways that people can fool themselves. Just, was it last night I think, we were talking and David Dockery was sharing about Grant Osbourne, a scholar friend of ours who passed away just this past month after an amazing career of scholarship, but when he was young he had asthma. Today we can point to solid finances, So her initial eyesight is 7/200, quite poor. University of Virginia, as well as private ones including Harvard, Yale, MIT, James: yes so think about what Shermer has done. Partly, because we are human and have many biases. We're talking about a lot of evidence. Try comparing these claims to, say, the difficulty in confirming the Higgs boson, gravity waves, black holes, or the accelerating universe. The situation was pretty hopeless until something quite shocking happened. his term as board chair this Junewill lead a national search for her Back home it happens. She said she'd been curled up like a pretzel. This article was originally published on Pure Flix Insider. She is the former president of Case Western Reserve University. It is for these sorts of problems that randomized controlled studies are developed and are necessary to distinguish effect from non-effect. claims with no available data, so one can't investigate, so one shouldn't believe it, claims with available data, where one can investigate, and it's shown that the evidence doesn't support the claim, so one shouldn't believe it, establish base-rates for the natural recoveries, evaluate alternative explanations -- and their prior probabilities, include both the positive and negative outcomes of the treatment, have good controls and experimental design to remove confounders. Synder's miraculous healing , which unfolded more than 30 years ago, was apparently so shocking that even her doctors have written about her seemingly impossible medical . From the Send Proof film they admit that they can't publish Bruce Van Natta case because the accurate measurement of the length of intestine needed to verify the result we don't have the technology yet. 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. It's not enough to show an effect that's really rare, maybe that's your first motivation, like "oh wow, this is a weird case. Barbara would always declare, "I love this Bible study! Couldn't the medical records have been earlier?) Could it be an illusion? He is, let's just say he is one of the most prolific biblical scholars that I'm aware of and is so productive. The latest breaking Christian news you need to know about as soon as it happens. February 4, 2019 8. AAU board chair Michael McRobbie said Snyder was a natural choice View the profiles of people named Barbara Snyder. perhaps this was the case here either with a longer resolving time (N=11 is not that large)? research universities in the U.S., as well as two in Canada. Is it possible she was misdiagnosed -- it wasn't MS, so looking for an MS recovery may be misdirected? It's not impossible under theism, but it is an odd omission and speaks to God's motivation. He has served in a variety of teaching and leadership roles, including a term as president of the Evangelical Theological Society in 2015. It's still healing. This one actually is, I think this one is not in the book because I came across this afterwards. conversation that I was a part of here: Bad Apologetics Ep 20 - Miracles & even MORE even NEWER Resurrection evidence where we respond to the Unbelievable? Hey, thanks for listening. Feel free to reach out if you want more specifics on a given quote or study. She was miraculously healed. Craig serves with me on the Board of Evangelical Theological Society. Prophetic messages from respected leaders & news of how God is moving throughout the world. Kamil makes the interesting point that the testimonies of different religions only reflect what that particular religion has as a theological component. Adding to that, he had some skepticism about some of the charlatans who have been exposed for making false claims about healings and the like. This pretty much summarizes the problems with this study. maybe we can study this" That's how a lot of science is done, it starts with "oh wow, that's weird" and then we can go and start testing it but theists don't seem to even want to take that next step. In my opinion this study represents a larger trend that I have discussed before clinical research going backwards in quality after higher quality studies yield negative results. If you are willing to believe the Barbard Snynder case, then you should be willing to believe this woman was healed of Parkinson's with "Energy Healing" or you should believe in the Golden Plates of Joseph Smith (making you a Mormon). Scott Rae: I love how you put that, that healing now is a foretaste of the Glory of the Kingdom. That's biola.edu/thinkbiblically. At any given time some member of the family was deathly sick from malaria or typhoid or something else. This would certainly be testable. I went over her solutions when she did , Skepticism and Dubious Medical Procedures. And around 39% of them claimed to have witnessed or experienced divine healing. They also make the claim that, for example, in Heidi Baker's ministry in Mozambique these healing happen "all the time" and are thus replicable. Exactly when this point is depends on considerations around prior probability. And just trying to stay ahead of the soldiers and the fighting. Easily testable, and I'd be surprised if this is a real effect once you get past the selection bias and sociological effects, and have good controls including separating number of miracle reports from actual anomalous medical events. These steps are in place to get at the truth, not to specifically put up barriers to rule out miracles. She's on her deathbed,'" Strobel explained. Craig Keener: Well everybody has a love story. None of us would say that all of those are authentic, but still we're talking about an awful lot of stories. Reserve today is in a position to attract a broad range of outstanding If someone gets healed, you often can't get back in contact with that person -- "it almost feels like if a miracle happens you have about 48 hours and then their gone". That's such a good way to frame that. Note that the STEP study mentioned below is, Let me start by saying that there have been gold standard studies before and after STEP that reached the opposite conclusion: that the group receiving prayer had better outcomes, she said. 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. 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. But if it hasn't been after so many years people say, "Ah, it might just be temporary.". God could choose methods that are not so easily confused with memory biases, measurement errors, and other distortions and it is suspicious that he doesn't operate that way. The institution that is referenced for the work is Global Medical Research Institute (GMRI) and the documentary about miracles referenced is Send Proof. If you thought you were miraculously cured, you'd have it tested every two weeks not waiting two years. In Steven Novella's post at Proximal Intercessory Prayer, he comments (on a different case, but applicable here). But I think there's a good representative sample. If you make such a claim, and that higher-than-average standard is not met, then you cannot be confident in that claim. You should receieve a confirmation email shortly. Yeah ,that's what Ii just asked you about! I don't believe Barbara Snyder was cured by the intervention of some agent outside the natural world. of the members of the University Athletic Association are part of the AAU. Click here to subscribe to the Charisma News newsletter. 2023 Robert L. White All Rights Reserved. After you lace up your boots, hit the trail. I just was trying to write a footnote for my Acts Commentary because one of the arguments against the reliability of Acts, you know, one fifth of Acts or one third of Mark roughly, deal with miracles. 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. Synder's miraculous healing, which unfolded more than 30 years ago, was apparently so shocking that even her doctors have written about her seemingly impossible medical turnaround. I don't think "I don't know" should be your default position unless that's really where you fall and so what I encourage people to do is read all sides, make an inference to the best explanation and go "this is what i think is most likely the case". Above all, Max underscores, "Getting unstuck means getting excited about getting out.". Each of those people are in the same position as the boy Elijah speaks about and will certainly attribute a God-given miracle to their healing. The bias is on the person making the positive claim. What problems are you interested in? successor. Scott Rae: I'd say that's quite a footnote! 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. After serving in several leadership positions at Moritz and within the central university, Barbara became OSUs interim executive vice president and provost in 2003 before securing that position on a permanent basis the following year. She went back. This time with them pushing her father, disabled father in a wheel barrel and they left a home that they would never see again and ended up basically in the forest, or villages in the forest, abandoned buildings, for the next year and a half. In principle I believed it, but I was questioning witnesses with kind of a skeptical approach to try to whittle away anything that wasn't necessarily accurate. Barbara is a director of KeyCorp and Progressive Corporation. Has it been confirmed? To learn about us and today's guest, Dr. Craig Keener and to find more episodes, go to biola.edu/thinkbiblically. Barbara Snyder (Barbara Cummiskey Snyder) healed from multiple sclerosis. I think people sitting back and watching kind of don't take into account that this is life-changing stuff that's happening to these people. UFO sightings happened all the time in the 1970s and 1980s but suddenly drop when we put cameras in everyone's pocket? 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. 2) A child dies from after a doctor concluded that this would be the outcome of the disease. It doesn't matter whether the claim is religious or scientific, the same rules apply. 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? The analogy breaks down here because of a difference of information (we have some context for prayer but none in the analogy) and it seems out of place. 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