Saturday, December 01, 2012  Hiding in plain sight  A stock
objection which unbelievers routinely raise to Biblical miracles
is the allegation that the world you and I live in doesn’t
resemble the world of the Bible. Biblical narratives are studded
with miracles, but we don’t experience that in the modern world.
Rather, we experience the uniformity of nature.  The contrast
between the world of the Bible and the world you and I actually
experience strongly suggests the world of the Bible isn’t the
real world, but a mythical, fictitious representation.  There
are different ways of responding to this argument. One way is to
challenge the operating premise. For instance, Jason Engwer and
I have cited a lot of material documenting widely-attested and
well-attested cases of the miraculous or the paranormal. In that
event, the alleged disconnect between the Biblical world and the
modern world or the “real” world is bogus. These are, in fact,
continuous.  There is, however, another way to challenge the
operating prem