She wanted to be with her family even though there was a war going on. At a minimum, one has to. She's on her deathbed," Strobel explained. We would not believe any medical claim that didn't have these properties, so we are not having too high of a standard -- we are just refusing to lower the standard in these cases. The James Randi foundation did this as well, with a preliminary test before the more in-depth test. The current results are suggestive, but are not conclusive. Craig Keener: Thanks. The good news will be preached to the poor. Craig serves with me on the Board of Evangelical Theological Society. I've read some of the first volume. Sometimes running for their lives. But there, the book is just full, both volumes, full of these remarkable stories like this. If you thought you were miraculously cured, you'd have it tested every two weeks not waiting two years. And the way we proceed is that we use medical science to eliminate the six and we can't really confirm or disconfirm the last remaining one but because we eliminated all of the alternatives that must be the one right or at least it's reasonable to believe that this is the one -- it's the best explanation. That said, before writing The Case for Miracles, Strobel was "ambivalent" about whether these miracles still happen today. About a week and a half later at my daughter Allison's soccer there were like 20 families and 20 moms and dads there and one of the fathers that I had said hi to but i didn't know him, walks up to me and he says "Hi, I'm so-and-so" and I said "I'm JP" and he said "how are you doing?" Today we can point to solid finances, Snyder, who became president of Case Western Reserve The situation was pretty hopeless until something quite shocking happened. It also highlights the need for detailed timelines to establish what the effect really is, before trying to grasp at causes. We only have the stories. "Barbara Snyder was diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic with multiple sclerosis. 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. 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. There were plenty of other stories just like it, too. I want our listeners to be totally aware, Craig Keener, just the two volume entitled Miracles. patient on hospice healed by Jesus. But again, it's a sign. Is it possible she was misdiagnosed -- it wasn't MS, so looking for an MS recovery may be misdirected? What is more striking, especially for people who don't like Pentecostals or Charismatics, what's more striking is that the survey also in those 10 countries dealt with Christians who didn't consider themselves Pentecostal or Charismatic. And as a Christian I naturally did believe in miracles. 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. To mix them makes it much harder to determine what's going on. Please open it and confirm your subscription. It is suitable for those who love nice illustrations. By counting these as "hits" and ignoring the deaths of starving children because they are "misses" and don't support their narrative is an indictment of the entire mode of thought. And there were a number of other people who also, who were there at the occasion, who knew him before and after, who could testify to this. As Nathan puts it, it's telling believers who doubt "stop those naughty thoughts." (Read also:Are the Biblical End Times upon us? Now there's a downside to everything. Indianapolis, Indiana. This article was originally published on Pure Flix Insider. What problems are you interested in? Click here to subscribe to the Charisma News newsletter. aliens, homeopathy). Further, the world is complex and any given effect can have many different possible causes, especially if we are talking about biological systems. 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. I don't believe Barbara Snyder was cured by the intervention of some agent outside the natural world. Share it with a friend. Chris Gunderson who was born with an incurable disorder called Chronic Pseudo Obstruction Syndrome, which was cured by prayer. Syndersmiraculous healing, which unfolded more than 30 years ago, was apparently so shocking that even her doctors have written about her seemingly impossible medical turn-around. The blind will see. Strobel, 66, is a former investigative journalist with the Chicago Tribune. Prior to that, she served as president of Case Western Reserve University from 2007 to 2020, where sheencouraged interdisciplinary excellence, catalyzed institutional collaboration, and reinvigorated alumni engagement and fundraising. in Old Testament from Dallas Theological Seminary, and a B.A.S. Prophetic messages from respected leaders & news of how God is moving throughout the world. #religion. But she, but it happened. It was assumed that Stargardt's disease was the best fit for her symptoms, but she has no family history for this genetic condition. Once you admit there are other agents, you need a process for actually determining that God -- as opposed to some other agent or natural process -- actually was the cause. Thus we will more often hear from the healing crowd. Why not? I don't understand how it's possible for both those things to be true. Scott Rae: So how did, how did she become a war refugee? Snyder ended up in hospice care with a no-resuscitation order; she was nearly blind, her hands and body were curled and she had a tube in her throat to help her breath as well as a tube in her stomach to ensure proper nourishment. What is being missed here is it shouldn't matter what the skeptic says -- the evidence should be strong enough to convince the skeptic. 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. But if you're that kid you've got to go what's more probable: an event that just randomly happened or the God that prayed I was praying to gave me my sight back, and so that is a part of the conversation. It's been shown that there is a high survival rate for patients with their heart rhythm responds to shocks. It's a story of how you met your wife, Medina, and I'm taking I pronounced that correctly. So as you've cataloged these different stories and different accounts, what's been the sort of the breath of the geography that's been involved? 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. And Jesus answers him with words from Isaiah 35 and Isaiah 61 saying, "The disabled will walk. Sean McDowell, Timothy Pickavance, Scott RaeFebruary 27, 2023, Sean McDowell, Scott RaeFebruary 16, 2023, Sean McDowell, Scott RaeFebruary 09, 2023. So we interviewed Antoinette Malumbay. 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. In all of human history there has never been one single credible and fully verified miracle cure. "This male voice coming from the corner of the room where nobody was said, 'Get up, my child, and walk,'" Strobel recounted. Craig Keener: Thanks so much for having me Scott. It involves Barbara Snyder and took place nearly 30 years ago. Craig Keener: I think it's true in some places more than in others. 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. I am delighted that the board selected Barbara to lead AAU So sometimes we don't see the outcome. It seems we disagree on how much evidence is enough. Psychics do this all the time as well. 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. This is the pattern we see of something that is non-existent, and the healings follow this exact same pattern. in social ethics from the University of Southern California, a Th.M. It would seem that these people are constantly dealing with skeptics, and the easiest way to address it would be to get the pre- and post- medical test data rather than a summary by one doctor, after the fact. Find your thing. But theists show no interest in doing this, they're satisfied with the first bad study that confirms what they already believe. It was really the miracle of the resurrection and the historical evidence for that that ended up bringing me to faith many years ago, Strobel told Pure Flix Insider and The Billy Hallowell Podcast. But my skepticism didn't go away.. From my reading also, MS can also go into spontaneous remission -- usually temporary -- but we don't have any follow-ups, detailed timelines documented, etc We have stories. I think no, because theism is vaguely defined. Really? I asked. DiSanto said that he would provide additional updates regarding the search It also includes the audio recording of Duane Miller, Contains an interview with Bruce Van Natta, the mechanic I referenced who lost most of his small intestines in an accident and was later healed. 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? It was from a different Congo so the person who did that doesn't know their geography. And, in fact, one doctor described her as being one of the most hopelessly ill patients he'd ever encountered.. He has a Ph.D. and M.A. "can you address the point and not just resort to this other issue that is actually not really in contention? This was in 1981 that this happened. It's not the consummation. She talked about when here daughter Terese was two years old that she cried out that she had been bitten by a snake and by the time her mother had got to her she found her not breathing. She deteriorated over a period of many years, several operations, many hospitalizations," Strobel explained. Converted to Pelican theme by Brian Blais. Scott Rae: Tell me first, one of the books I'd like to talk about first is the book Impossible Love. And when you dig in and you start interviewing some of the people and looking at some of the medical documentation, we're not talking about a little bit of evidence. fall transition to the AAU will depend on the progress of the search process. So she basically pulls the tube out of her throat, says, Go find my parents [and] jumps out of bed.. chair James C. Wyant said that Fred DiSantoan alumnus and trustee who begins That fact alone is strong evidence that miracles are not real. Nathan: it's like he understands broadly what he should be doing but then that stands in place of him actually doing it it's like as if just finally having a bit of a grasp of how we should reason about the these things.suppose we agree with you now well why is that the best explanation? This last part is the reason we set up replication, controls, and other processes to minimize the effects of the limitations. None of these steps are taken in any of these cases. It also includes the audio recording of Duane Miller as he is being spontaneously healed of his permanent, severe vocal chord damage. This is why causal connections are so hard to establish, because not only do you have to demonstrate a real effect, you have to somehow distinguish possible causes. Tag: Barbara Snyder healing miracle ms. episode: Is there medical evidence for miracles? And they said, "Macular degeneration doesn't undegenerate." What would happen if two people out in space a few meters apart, abandoned by their spacecraft, decided to wait until gravity pulled them together? What happens if you don't have randomized-controlled studies in medicine? This is a direct claim, that these miracles occur much more frequently in some groups (e.g. Craig Keener, Michael Shermer & Elijah Stephens, Case Report of gastroparesis healing: 16 years of a chronic syndrome resolved after proximal intercessory prayer, Case report of instantaneous resolution of juvenile macular degeneration blindness after proximal intercessory prayer, Study of the therapeutic effects of proximal intercessory prayer (STEPP) on auditory and visual impairments in rural Mozambique, Delia Knox healed from being paralyzed after 22 years, Sean George comes back after a heart attack, https://guides.library.stonybrook.edu/evidence-based-medicine/levels_of_evidence, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15166467/, https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/full-moon-does-not-affect-mental-health-emergency-room-study-suggests, first evidence for the accelerating universe, https://seangeorge.com.au/my-story/medical-details/, phenomenon of spontaneous recovery of heart activity, https://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularoutpost/2019/04/06/the-resurrection-of-dr-sean-george-part-1-summary/, https://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularoutpost/2019/05/10/the-resurrection-of-dr-sean-george-part-2-littlewoods-law/, https://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularoutpost/2019/05/24/the-resurrection-of-dr-sean-george-part-3-georges-argument/, https://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularoutpost/2019/05/26/the-resurrection-of-dr-sean-george-part-4-evaluation-premise-1c/, https://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularoutpost/2019/06/26/the-resurrection-of-dr-sean-george-part-5-evaluation-of-premise-a4/, evidence that someone was sick at one time, evidence that they were not sick at a later time, sometime between those two points they claimed that they were prayed for (and don't always demonstrate that they actually were prayed), they used xrays to diagnose it originally, which is not the best for soft tissue. We know that the healing was observed after the prayer, but we don't know if it caused it because we can't rule out an earlier recovery that went unnoticed. Craig thanks so much for being with us. Prayer, in her house, probably occurs even more frequently. 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. So I got what I could. The dead will be raised." Don't presume what I'll believe, show me evidence of an arm growing back first, then perhaps we'll see -- but I'd need the proper controls. President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that she will It was easier for me for some cultures than for other cultures. Prior to that, she served as president of Case Western Reserve University from 2007 to 2020, where she encouraged interdisciplinary excellence, catalyzed institutional collaboration, and reinvigorated alumni engagement and fundraising. I said "I'm doing well" and he said "Well listen this may sound odd to you, but could you use a pool table?". The story is of a person who was paralyzed from the waist down due to a car accident and 22 years later they were prayed for and healed. 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. 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. 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. ), but with the best they ever give us (like the cases above), the second you dig a little bit you find that all the evidence kind of vaporizes or there are plausible alternative explanations that take only a minute to come up with. university facing significant debt, disaffected alumni, and deep concern about Scott Rae: And then she made it safely to the U.S. and then you were reunited again. He has served in a variety of teaching and leadership roles, including a term as president of the Evangelical Theological Society in 2015. Scott Rae is professor of Christian ethics and dean of the faculty at Talbot School of Theology. Case Western Reserves Board of Trustees Her energy, integrity, and powerful commitment to collaboration have led to progress and partnerships that would have been unimaginable when she first arrived.. As I've said before, the fact that there are no videos of this sort is strong evidence against the veracity of miracles. And the person came back after prayer and a number of other cases. in economics from Southern Methodist University. 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 turn-around. These theists are in fact arguing for a lower level of evidence than we demand of the universities and pharmaceutical companies for their claims. Sometimes there really isn't enough available evidence to substantiate a claim. Thinking about the Snyder "miracle", I do wonder why in these cases there isn't much more extensive medical documentation? She graduated from the University of Chicago School of Law, where she served as executive editor of the law review. Or even the most dramatic story I found from somebody that I or my wife knows, but this one was particularly mind blowing to me because Antoinette Malumbay was my mother-in-law and Terese is my sister-in-law. This article wasoriginally published on Pure Flix Insider. Snyder, who became president of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in July 2007, will join the Association of American Universities (AAU) by the end . We have to have miracles. Did she go back to Congo after her PhD studies? Kamil points out that there is a mismatch between the magnitude of the claim and the attention they pay to documenting it. She was blind, bedridden with severely impaired breathing due to a paralyzed diaphragm and a collapsed lung. One day in late 1962, the drummer announced that he had an idea for song that had come to him in dream the night before. Do extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? And we'll have a way that you can access that in the transcript of this. My oldest grandson loves to run and is always racing ahead, scampering up hills and sliding down ravines faster than the rest. What really annoys me is when they say "I could show you cases of arms growing back theoretically speaking and you would not believe it" when the best evidence they have barely rises to the level of being interesting, let alone something amazing like this. Sometimes God uses things. But there are a number of cases like that. This one is obviously ludicrous, but I think undermines the theists claims quite a lot. Adapted from Editorial Theme html5up.net | @ajlkn, Done! Is it a miracle? Further, she also has a twin sister! It is for these sorts of problems that randomized controlled studies are developed and are necessary to distinguish effect from non-effect. Lee Strobels Miracles talk (25 minute segment), Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Proximal Intercessory Prayer (STEPP) on Auditory and Visual Impairments in Rural Mozambique, In conversation with Digital Gnosis (Nathan Ormond), Street Epistemology with Eddie (Deep Discussions), Thoughts on the Randal Rauser vs. An immediate thought is how many times was he prayed over and nothing happened? We we need a whole lot of a whole lot of cases to be able to to examine that. And she'd also gone blind. It's not impossible under theism, but it is an odd omission and speaks to God's motivation. of the members of the University Athletic Association are part of the AAU. The Surfaris were a California garage band with an average age of 15 who had been successful enough playing at sock hops and house parties that they were able to acquire a manager. For more information about our use of cookies, our collection, use, and disclosure of personal information generally, and any rights you may have to access, delete, or opt out of the sale of your personal information, please view our Privacy Policy. And you just Well that was one of the reasons people argued against their reliability. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. You've done tremendous work on it that is a huge benefit to the Kingdom, not only with your technical biblical scholarship, but with this incredible stuff you've done on miracles. 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. This one actually is, I think this one is not in the book because I came across this afterwards. But in some places Like I had a student from India, a doctor of ministry student, who said almost everybody that he prays for in India gets healed. And then I said "In Jesus's name, Amen" and so we moved on. I doubt Keener has tried to actually get this done beyond the anecdotal level. Further, Nathan points out the problem is that Elijah needs to actually tell us some some epistemic story about what it is that puts people who pray in a position to know that God is the cause of the miracle happening. So what made you want to go in this direction? And we give Glory to God whenever we get the opportunity to be a part of those, but it's, we don't expect that, that the Kingdom, that we'll have experienced the Kingdom in its fullest now. Also we need to know what happens when there is no treatment as a control. She has extensive experience in reinforcing Case Western Reserves She's had no recurrence. I think it also is evident that the theists aren't serious about studying these things, and are content to believe things on bad evidence. Nathan: I think what we're seeing here are the fruits of apologetics in some ways. Given Keener's habits of simplifying and distorting the actual original claims, and the demonstration throughout all of this that his standards for evidence are terribly low, it calls into question is entire 1300 page book on miracles. Synder ended up in hospice care with a no-resuscitation order; she was nearly blind, her hands and body were curled and she had a tube in her throat to help her breath as well as a tube in her stomach to ensure proper nourishment. But you've written a two volume set over, excess of a 1000 pages on the subject of miracles. However, after analyzing several miracles Strobel is convinced they are. You wont want to miss Scotts interview with Dr. Craig Keener, renowned New Testament scholar, who has done in depth research on miracles today. And of course there's no way to test medically because there was no medic op available. Is he thinking (a strawman of) 100% of the time? 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. 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. Elijah: I also think we in the west have a bias toward poor people as not having knowledge of when something's dead or an arm is broken or something of that nature and so I think when people put themselves in situations where they pray for the sick and a whole village knows this child was born blind from birth they're 15 years old and that person sees gets their sight back and this is a different religion and that village testifies he was blind now, he sees that is a different scenario than we're talking about here and the lens of science really can't speak to that. She said she'd been curled up like a pretzel. Without further data, it is impossible to rule out these things, but you'd think the data would be available with something this recent? Couldn't the medical records have been earlier?) But she starts dancing around, jumping around. She heard a voice saying, "My child, rise up and walk." "Barbara Snyder was diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic with multiple sclerosis. So it was just going to be a footnote, but as I researched it more and more it grew more and more. It really doesnt matter what the treatment is or how plausible it is you simply cannot draw any meaningful conclusion from 24 self-selected subjects with no controls and no blinding. Medine was a war refugee for 18 months in her country of Congo. When his wife prayed, having been told that he was gone, the heart monitor "sprang back to life" and then the doctors were able to revive him. So what's your response when you pray, lots of people pray, and a miracle doesn't happen? I cook breakfast sandwich and lunch sandwichs I'm also a cashier. As James pointed out, individual testimony is irrelevant. Barbara began her academic career as an assistant professor at Case Western Reserves School of Law, then joined the faculty of Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. Biography [ edit] Some initial thoughts Time stamp 4:47 James is right that the evidence on a lot of these cases is really really bad. The story is that this person had a condition where they couldn't eat normally, were fed with a tube, and this persisted for 16 years. So her initial eyesight is 7/200, quite poor. In his book, The Case for Miracles, evangelist Lee Strobel cites the miraculous healing of Barbara Snyder that took place nearly 30 years ago. Thank you for being with us. James: can we just make it a thing to always mention that like although it's not that popular these days that deism or non-interventionist form of theism are a thing like you can totally believe in god and still not be okay with miracles? She deteriorated over a period of many years, several operations, many hospitalizations, Strobel explained. She worked as a teacher's aide for Headstart and was a member of St. Mary's Church in Elmira, NY. Justin: why do you feel sympathetic to the view that what they're finding is evidence for supernatural healing rather than just extraordinary somewhat unexplained events ? She and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky. Her feet and fingers were suddenly straight and normal again. And so on. 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. 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. Get Charisma's best content delivered right to your inbox! 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. These are two red flags which will need some level of caution in establishing the cause of the condition improving. Both cases are discussed in Strobels video linked above as well. 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 . He had asthma all his life. I mean not that it was deliberately anti-supernatural, but it was deliberately non-supernatural. Her blindness, too, had been instantaneously healed. In 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. In this case, Shermer's argument is that there is a context (e.g. There was no blinding or control group so everyone in the study, subjects and experimenters, knew that every subject was getting the treatment. 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