A miracle is an unusual event that goes against the commonly observed laws of nature. The Bible reveals to us that miracles accompanied the prophets whom God used to deliver His Word to humankind. Because of these miracles people knew that these prophets truly were men of God, and that the words they spoke (and wrote) were God's words.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. (1 Pet 1.20-21)

Humanists, socialists, communists, and other atheists try constantly to discredit the very concept of miracles. Why? Because if there have never been any miracles, then the Bible is just a big lie. And if the Bible is just a big lie, then we had best discard it and look elsewhere for a philosophy to live by. Probably, in such a case, there is no God either, nor would there be a Heaven or Hell, or even absolute rights and wrongs. However, if the miracles that accompanied the writing of the Bible really happened, then the Bible is true, there is a Creator God, and we all had better believe what He says, and obey His commandments. The purpose of this pamphlet, however, is not to discuss whither or not miracles have ever happened, for everybody believes in miracles, even the people who say they don't believe in them. Even humanists/atheists believe in miracles! Yes they do!

Even Atheists Believe In Miracles! Humanists, socialists, communists, and other atheists base their lives on some of the most incredible miracles ever imagined. Consider for instance
 

The Big Bang Theory is the atheist/humanist doctrine of how the universe began. This theory teaches that in the beginning the matter of the whole universe was compressed into a tiny ball smaller then a pinpoint. (Where all this matter came from is seldom discussed.) Then (without cause) there was a tremendous explosion which, instead of disintegrating things into particles, assembled particles into things, and instead of destroying life created it! Explosions as observed today never do this; all observed explosions kill and destroy, producing chaos---never do they give life or produce order. Such an event certainly goes against all the presently observed laws of nature, and therefore, if it ever really happened, certainly was a miracle.
 

An especially importance atheist/humanist doctrine is abiogenesis. Abiogenesis is the idea that life sprang spontaneously from dead matter, perhaps at the time the big bang occurred. (The only alternative to abiogenesis is the Bible teaching of biogenesis---that life can only come from life.) Abiogenesis is essential to any philosophy based on atheism. Yet the idea of abiogenesis goes totally against the observable facts of nature. Every living organism ever observed coming into existence has come out of another living being. No one has ever even once seen life spring from non-living matter. In fact, it was Louis Pasteur's vigorous exposure of the fraud of abiogenesis that made him the father of modern medicine. In Pasteur's day, abiogenesis was called "spontaneous generation," but Pasteur so thoroughly disproved spontaneous generation that humanists are now forced to refer to the idea as "abiogenesis" to avoid stigma.

In Spallanzani's time, there was a great debate going on. It was the same debate that, about one hundred years later, would fire Louis Pasteur into the front line of battle, as its fierce warrior, to settle the matter once and for all. The question was this: Does every living thing have to have parents, or can living things spring into life spontaneously? The argument was bound up with beliefs about how the world was first formed.¹

Do you know why I desire so much to fight and conquer you? it is because you are one of the principal adepts of a medical doctrine which I believe to be fatal to progress in the art of healing-the doctrine of spontaneity of all diseases....That is an error which, I repeat it, is harmful to medical progress. From the prophylactic as well as from the therapeutic point of view, the fate of the physician and surgeon depends upon the adoption of the one or the other of these two doctrines.²

Evolution is another miracle essential to atheist/humanist dogma. Evolution is the idea that one kind of being can give birth to a different kind of being. Change within a species, of course, happens all the time (there are, for example, a great variety of cats); but never does a cat give birth to a new kind of animal---which is what humanists/atheists are implying when they use the word evolution. Evolution, of course, has never been observed. All observed births demonstrate just the opposite: each living being gives birth only to a baby of its own kind, just like the Bible stresses in Genesis chapter one. Nor is there any evidence in the fossil record that evolution ever has happened. The "missing links" Darwin hoped would be discovered in the fossils have never been found. So, in spite of constant atheist/humanist hype to the contrary, evolution is not science, but mere superstition. It is blind faith in a phony miracle which no one has ever witnessed.
 

The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that in all energy transformations there tends to be some energy transformed into non-reversible heat energy. The term entropy is used in measuring this energy loss. Thus the Second Law of Thermodynamics states that left to itself the entropy of a closed system can never decrease, but always tends to increase. It would hardly be possible to conceive of two more completely opposite principles than this principle of entropy increase and the principle of evolution. Each is precisely the converse of the other. As Huxley defined it, evolution involves a continual increase of order, of organization, of size, of complexity. The entropy principle involves a continual decrease of order, of organization, of size, of complexity. It seems axiomatic that both cannot possibly be true. But there is no question whatever that the second law of thermodynamics is true! ³
 

Humanist philosophers present all of their doctrines as science. But the scientific method demands observation. And the beginning of the universe and the beginning of the first living beings cannot be observed. Only God saw these things happen, and we either believe His testimony concerning these things or else we deem Him a liar. Teachings concerning these things are not scientific but religious. Louis Pasteur---that king of scientists---correctly observed that philosophy is not science and could not prove the origin of the universe and life even if it was. Wrote Pasteur:

My philosophy is of the heart and not of the mind, and I give myself up, for instance, to those feelings about eternity which come naturally at the bedside of a cherished child drawing its last breath. At those supreme moments, there is something in the depths of our souls which tells us that the world may be more then a mere combination of phenomena proper to a mechanical equilibrium brought out of the chaos of the elements simply through the gradual action of the forces of matter. I admire them all, our philosophers! We have experiments to straighten and modify our ideas, and constantly find that nature is other than we imagined. They, who are always guessing, how can they know!⁴
 

Since everybody believes in miracles, the important question is not "Should we believe in miracles?" Rather, the important question is, "In whose miracles should we believe?" Or more specifically, in which miracle worker should we believe? Our choice is this: either we will believe in God, or we will believe in Satan. If there is a God, He certainly can produce miracles. That is entirely believable. But if there be no God, then what mysterious force produces miracles? If God is not the force of creation, then evolution is. And if evolution is the force of creation, then evolution is god. Therefore, belief in evolution is idolatry---worship of a pagan god. And a pagan god by whatever name is really just Satan in disguise. Atheism/humanism is thus a form of the occult. It is pure superstition. Many atheists/humanists deny believing in Satan, but even such renowned atheists/humanists as Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the recipient of the Humanist of the Year award in 19575), Madalyn Murray O'Hair (the atheist responsible for the Supreme court decision removing prayer from schools), and Aldous Huxley (atheist/humanist author and brother to the famous Sir Julian Huxley of the American Humanist Association) dabbled in the occult.⁶ If a person is gullible enough to believe in abiogenesis and evolution, he is gullible enough to believe virtually anything Satan decides to feed him. Faith in evolution is actually faith in Satan, whither the atheist/humanist realizes it or not. A man who will not worship the true miracle worker (God) is by his own choice worshipping the phony miracle worker (Satan).
 

Before rejecting the miracles recorded in the Bible, a person should at least give them some serious study. Consider for instance

The Miracle of the Virgin Birth of Christ.

Humanists/atheists laugh and scoff at people who believe the miracle of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, yet humanists/atheists themselves believe in the miracle of some ape-like creature giving birth to the first human---and without God even helping! Considering the preposterousness of such an idea, it is the Christians that should be doing the laughing and scoffing. So consider seriously the importance of the virgin birth.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. (Mat 1.18-23)

The Miracle of the Resurrection

"Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?" (Acts 26.8). Contrary to what humanists/atheists teach, death is not normal. Humans as originally created by God did not die. But Adam eating the forbidden fruit brought death upon us all.

"For by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned" (Rom 5.12). But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. (Rom 5.8-10)

Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. (1 Cor 15.20-28)

The Miracle of the New Birth

You can know that God is real today by experiencing the miracle of the new birth.
 

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God....For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? (1 Joh 5.1-5)

FOOTNOTES:

¹Beverley Birch, Louis Pasteur: the Scientist Who Found the Cause of Infectious Disease and Invented Pasteurization (Milwaukee: Gareth Stevens Children's Books, 1989), 12.

²Vallery-Radot, The Life of Pasteur (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923), 256.

³Henry M. Morris, The Twilight of Evolution (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1970), 35.

⁴Vallery-Radot, 125.

⁵The Humanist, March/April 1992, 4.

⁶ "Publicly, she [Margaret Sanger] identified herself with the increasingly rationalized world of science and medicine, but privately she maintained a fascination with the spiritual and the occult, frequently stopping between appointments to consult psychics, astrologers, and others who offered specious, but generally comforting, explanations of events and behavior she could not objectively explain." (Ellen Chesler, Woman of Valor-Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement In America [New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), 221)

For witness to Madalyn Murray O'Hair participating in the occult, read the book by her son, William J. Murray, My Life Without God (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1982), page 119-120.

In a personal letter to Juliette Huxley in 1965 Aldus wrote: "Do you find as I do, that the older one get, the more unutterably mysterious, unlikely and totally implausible one's own life and the universe at large steadily become? For practical purposes, one tries to make a little scientific and ethical sense of it all; for non-practical purposes-aesthetic and 'spiritual'-one cultivates Wordsworth's 'wise passiveness' and opens oneself up receptively to the MYSTERIUM TREMENDUM ET FASCINANS within and without" (Julian Huxley, Aldous Huxley (1894-1963): A Memorial Volume [New York: Harper & Row, 1965], 50).

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