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Articles (10)

Miracle Optimization

Lincoln Cannon expands on "The Technological Conception," arguing for miracle optimization as a richer framework for explaining divine action.

Transhumanist Advent: The man who had been mute spoke

Caleb Jones explores how modern technologies like SignAloud echo biblical healing miracles—giving voice to the mute through innovation and compassion.

Transhumanist Advent: They did all eat, and were filled

Caleb Jones connects Christ's miracle of multiplying loaves to modern agriculture and genetic engineering—feeding the hungry as a transhumanist imperative.

Transhumanist Advent: She is not dead but sleepeth

Explore how modern medicine and technology echo Christ’s miracle of raising the dead, blurring the line between sleep and death through cryonics, CPR, and emerging science.

Transhumanist Advent: He maketh the deaf to hear

Caleb Jones connects Christ's healing of the deaf to modern hearing technology—exploring how innovation emulates the compassionate works of Jesus.

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John A. WidtsoeJohn A. Widtsoe

A miracle is an occurrence which, first, cannot be repeated at will by man, or, second, is not understood in its cause and effect relationship. History is filled with such miracles. What is more, the whole story of man’s progress is the conversion of “miracles” into controlled and understood events. The airplane and radio would have been miracles, yesterday.

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Parley P. PrattParley P. Pratt

Among the popular errors of modern times, an opinion prevails that miracles are events which transpire contrary to the laws of nature, that they are effects without a cause. If such is the fact, then, there never has been a miracle, and there never will be one. The laws of nature are the laws of truth. Truth is unchangeable, and independent in its own sphere. A law of nature never has been broken. And it is an absolute impossibility that such law ever should be broken.

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Hebrews 13:2 (KJV): Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

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James E. TalmageJames E. Talmage

Miracles are commonly regarded as occurrences in opposition to the laws of nature. Such a conception is plainly erroneous, for the laws of nature are inviolable.

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James E. TalmageJames E. Talmage

Miracles cannot be in contravention of natural law, but are wrought through the operation of laws not universally or commonly recognized. Gravitation is everywhere operative, but the local and special application of other agencies may appear to nullify it—as by muscular effort or mechanical impulse a stone is lifted from the ground, poised aloft, or sent hurtling through space.

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