Miracles and natural laws.

After the “paradoxes” with time, we now move on to the equally exciting mysteries related to phenomena commonly referred to as miracles. What are miracles, anyway? We generally define them as phenomena in which that seem to break the laws that we’re used to in
we’re used to in ordinary life. It appears as if God has violated the validity of the rules that He has established. As the Almighty God, it certainly can do it, but the question is whether he does. Nobel Laureate physics laureate Newill Mott wrote an exciting article, Faith Without Miracles,56), in which he attempts to view miracles not as a violation of the fundamental laws of nature but as strange processes that man cannot bring about, but which do not constitute an abrogation of the validity of basic rules.

Let us note, for example, miraculous healing. Theoretically, these are
the sudden restoration of the normal functioning of organs (the blind can see, the lame walk) from the stimulus of a “word” or some other mental activity. It is a miracle in that it transcends the ordinary practical training of man. Still, the process itself cannot be described as “bare impossibility” as the opponents of miracles try to interpret it
because analogous “miraculous” processes that occur in our lives permanently take place in our life. Every concrete mechanical act of man, such as picking up an object, begins in the spiritual sphere by the intention to do this or that. This immaterial intention is (still mysteriously to us) transformed into material nervous excitations (currents), which induce concrete mechanical movement of the muscles concerned, at the end of which the lifting above the object.

It is interesting that these “miracles.” we take for granted, while similar processes in the context of miraculous healing, for example, take place at the will of God; one dismisses it as a bare impossibility because it is said to be contrary to the laws of nature. From such a point of view, we are suddenly presented in a different light with the
event of conception, often denigrated and ridiculed by unbelievers, from Holy Spirit”. The fact that “the Word became flesh” here, to the unbelievers as a bare impossibility. Still, the fact that in their every physical act also, “the Word becomes a material process,” this is for them a daily commonplace, which is not worthy of being dwelt upon. Moreover, here one can it may be recalled that in recent years it has been experimentally confirmed the possibility of “growing” an individual from a cell of only one representative? of a particular animal species (the well-known case of the Scottish sheep), which still further facilitates the acceptance of the mystery mentioned above, which of course must be to be understood as an act of God, but not as a feat which, from a human point of view nature of absolute impossibility.

In the above view of the mechanism of miraculous healing, one must be careful not to make it sound like an endorsement of various alternative healing methods, in which the crucial role of the psyche and the verbal action of the healer. It cannot be ruled out that this approach may be successful in some instances, but these are only isolated and random cases. Can such activity be professionalized and generalized to an arbitrarily broad spectrum of diseases, in no case?
Of the above category of miracles, which consist of miraculous healing, the benefits that stand out are those that almost certainly appear to be violations of natural laws. We have in mind, for example, the miraculous multiplication of loaves and fishes, which we learn about in the New Testament message. In this miracle, it was generating food from nothing. An advantage of this kind – only in infinitely more spectacular “design” – happened at the very beginning
of our world, when God created the world out of nothing. These are undoubtedly great miracles, but it is by no means self-evident that they occurred in violation of the most fundamental laws of our universe, namely the law of conservation of matter and energy. At present – as we have already pointed out – even materialistically minded physicists have nothing to object to the claim that the universe could have come from nothing.

There is a generally as yet unconfirmed hypothesis that the universe is
governed by so-called “zero right-hand sides” conservation laws. Such is, for example, the law of conservation of momentum of an isolated system or the law of conservation of electric charge. If the total hy of a remote system is zero initially, then it always remains so, no matter what happens inside it. Therefore, the escape of gases from it in one direction is offset by the motion of the whole system, for example, a rocket, in the opposite direction. A remote observer would be surprised that out of nowhere, without outside interference. Movement. Also, if it were true that the sum of the total mass in the universe equals zero, which of course assumes that there is present in the universe “positive” and “negative” matter, then there would be nothing to prevent the at some point to generate from “nothing” any amount of positive and negative value at the same time. There are some reasons to suppose so. As far as energy is concerned, there would be no assumption that the existence of positive and negative energy in the universe could be plausible – positive energy is represented by matter, negative energy by the gravitational field.