"So she basically pulls the tube out of her throat, says, 'Go find my parents' [and] jumps out of bed.". Likewise, Americans are quite prone to believing in the potential occurrence of miracles. The way people like the stories highlights their way of thinking and provides a teachable moment about like why don't we trust claims just from the claims, even if it has a peer-reviewed journal article. Prayer, in her house, probably occurs even more frequently. Barbara Cummiskey Snyder is on Facebook. All rights reserved. I was talking with Antoinette Malumbay with my wife translating for me 'cause my wife knew the story only second hand herself. university facing significant debt, disaffected alumni, and deep concern about 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. Reserve today is in a position to attract a broad range of outstanding To learn about us and today's guest, Dr. Craig Keener and to find more episodes, go to biola.edu/thinkbiblically. Scott Rae: Yeah, see that's the big miracle that's coming. Elijah: I think this: the fact that there are fake miracles does not preclude the fact that there can be real miracles. [] why are they not healed if the context matters and we're defining a miracle as you know divine intervention not just a highly improbable event then how come there's no divine intervention there and if the answer is well god works in mysterious ways who knows well you know that's kind of a hand wave, Elijah: i think also calling a handwave kind of undermines something is imagine you caught a murderer and uh you saw him shoot a guy and he goes well i i haven't shot anyone before in my life um is that what we're trying to show is these are real examples i can't explain the soldier coming home that that makes perfect sense but what i can say is there was a blind lady and she got prayer and her eyes opened up and she had macular degeneration they can verify that before and afterwards and i'm not sure it's rational to call those uh uh just coincidences. In my discussion with Jonathan McLatchie on the Still Unbelievable podcast, I said that there hasnt been a verified miracle claim even since Humes essay on miracles. 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 turnaround. As James pointed out, individual testimony is irrelevant. 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. Visit Pure Flix for access to thousands of faith and family friendly movies and TV shows. Well, yeah but could we be a bit more specific? Barbara was married to the late Robert L. Snyder. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and. 2023 Blaze Media LLC. [3] During Snyder's tenure as the university president, CWRU has overcome a $20 million budget deficit, increased fundraising by nearly $60 million, and increased research dollars by more than $15 million. We also can't rule out that he was prayed for many many times in 16 years, and only at this particular time for some other reason he recovered. Even in seemingly obvious cases. Edwin Booth, perhaps unfairly known today as the brother of assassin John Wilkes Booth, was once upon a time . So we interviewed Antoinette Malumbay. You should receieve a confirmation email shortly. Is he thinking (a strawman of) 100% of the time? You're an expert on the life and teachings of Paul. And Coco [inaudible] prayed and Terese started breathing again and the next day she was fine. He is, let's just say he is one of the most prolific biblical scholars that I'm aware of and is so productive. We use cookies to better understand website visitors, for advertising, and to offer you a better experience. The response we get is to say "Well what you have to do is you have to compare explanations and see which one's the best" and it's like "Right! No one in medicine evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment from case studies alone, or even primarily due to case studies. A document going through these particular medical statements with citations can be found here. He became a Christian in 1981 shortly after he decided to investigate Jesus and the Christian faith after his wife became a Christian. She was blind, bedridden with severely impaired breathing due to a paralyzed diaphragm and a collapsed lung. If this is the Marolyn Ford case, which I think it is, then we have to consider that she worked in a church for that amount of time, and obviously got prayed for many times with no effect, and only got the healing after many years. First of all, is that true? Craig serves with me on the Board of Evangelical Theological Society. But in this case, he had to have the medical documentation be he'd been on disability. As Nathan puts it, it's telling believers who doubt "stop those naughty thoughts." Just to have the words "inference to the best explanation" that legitimizes the inference that you're making rather than actually being able to use inference to the best explanation. Why don't we just simply believe. Now, Strobel, whose personal story was told through the Pure Flix feature film, book anddocumentarytitled The Case for Christ, has released The Case for Miracles, a new investigative book that relies on facts, interviews, and studies to further explore spiritual matters. Though he believed the Biblical stories of Christs miracles, Strobel was less convinced miracles were happening today. Keener doesn't explore alternative hypotheses and how he'd distinguish between them. Do extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? This would certainly be testable. 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. Craig Keener at around 37:00 in the Unbelievable? These two cases are some of the best they have, and they are only modestly interesting, and have plausible mundane explanations. The response is, essentially, that I am demanding too much evidence. Skepticism is basically that we proportion our belief to the evidence, and we've found (through science) that to do it we need to disbelieve most claims, that we need to acknowledge our biases, and to recognize that even the scientific process is limited. Prophetic messages from respected leaders & news of how God is moving throughout the world. So, we know that at least 450 Christians began praying for her, because they wrote letters saying, 'We're praying for you.. Scott Rae: Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture. It is quite clear that once you allow one miraculous healing in, using evidence of just one person, then one has to let in a whole host of others. Honestly, this mistake is primarily due to sloppy reporting -- if you are reporting a set of numbers in a study, especially if you are establishing a timeline of events, you need to make it clear when some numbers are not comparable. Chris Gunderson who was born with an incurable disorder called Chronic Pseudo Obstruction Syndrome, which was cured by prayer. 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. I cook breakfast sandwich and lunch sandwichs I'm also a cashier. So miracles aren't meant to be [inaudible] for the world's problems. 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. Even the supplementary information doesn't rule this out, where they have some reports in the 16 years but don't say they've been attempting oral feedings. Couldn't the medical records have been earlier?) And, in fact, one doctor described her as being one of the most hopelessly ill patients he'd ever encountered.. my peers call to work on behalf of all of our institutions.. Barbara Snyder arrived at a She deteriorated over a period of many years, several operations, many hospitalizations, Strobel explained. 13800 Biola Ave, La Mirada CA 90639 BiolaUniversity, Inc. All Rights Reserved. He has a Ph.D. and M.A. ), 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. A lot of these things were published in Asia. The first question is, are there real miracles that get recorded on video. We use cookies to better understand website visitors, for advertising, and to offer you a better experience. Craig Keener: Yeah, and part of it was inherited through my academic training. You can get a free, one-month trialhere. When I've heard the murderer analogy it is to argue against Hume's uniform human experience against miracles, because someone could argue for the murderer by claiming it is against his uniform experience to murder someone -- he's never murdered anyone before. administrators, including President Snyder herself. Or in Matthew 12 and Luke 11 where is says, "If I by the finger of the Spirit of God drive out demons, the Kingdom of God has come upon you." The maternal mortality rate in childbirth is so much higher there. 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. And even after CPR is stopped, there is an observed phenomenon of spontaneous recovery of heart activity after as much as 15 minutes, and his recovered after 10 minutes. It is suitable for those who love nice illustrations. This highlights many of the problems I've been talking about and we get to see it in real-time. These steps are in place to get at the truth, not to specifically put up barriers to rule out miracles. Strobel said. What problems are you interested in? You can see why these stories are powerful and you can see why people really get motivated by them nd so i think it is important to respond to them because of that. From Send Proof Elijah StephensI didn't realize how difficult it would be [to find evidence for miracle healings]. February 4, 2019 8. And so I guess my first question is, what motivated you to undertake that because your field has been pretty technical New Testament studies. "Barbara Snyder was diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic with multiple sclerosis. Tell our listeners a little bit a how you two met and why you wrote the book, Impossible Love. Really? I asked. Craig Keener: Yeah. Moreland: we asked god to give us a really good pool table just like the kind that you find in a pool hall, that isn't a cheap one that if you hit it up it shakes. These are two red flags which will need some level of caution in establishing the cause of the condition improving. So where there's cutting edge Evangelism, God does more dramatic things. CT Patterns of Lung Disease, Dr.. Scott Rae: -semi anti-supernatural vibes. Christian epistemologist, software engineer, musician, not necessarily in that order. So even when, you know it doesn't happen to all of us. Shermer: well the counterfactual what about the christian families who pray for their loved one who's dying from cancer and they just die nothing happens from the prayer that happens all the time. Scott Rae: Yeah. The fact that they can only produce two or three, with serious procedural and reporting issues, is strong evidence that this effect is non-existent. This male voice coming from the corner of the room where nobody was said, 'Get up my child and walk, Strobel recounted. If you want to, for our listeners, if you want to read a little bit more about it Craig's written a fairly lengthy book on the whole, the whole narrative of that called Impossible Love. Sean McDowell, Timothy Pickavance, Scott RaeFebruary 27, 2023, Sean McDowell, Scott RaeFebruary 16, 2023, Sean McDowell, Scott RaeFebruary 09, 2023. READ ALSO: Are the Biblical End Times Upon Us? Nine out of ten with prayer is the meaning of replicable, so I don't know what he really is thinking when he says miracles are not replicable. I wrote about some of these cases in another post and I've written about miracles many times. Barbara R. Snyderis president of the Association of American Universities. We know God worked many and mighty miracles throughout biblical times, but for many Christians, we dont see as much evidence for miracles in our lives as there was in biblical times. Not at all, given that all of the facts of his case fall within the known bounds of what is possible and observed, even if rare. You can received notifications daily or weekly. The James Randi foundation did this as well, with a preliminary test before the more in-depth test. Craig Keener: I think it's true in some places more than in others. Certainly months in the case of severe atrophy over the course of years. Scott Rae is professor of Christian ethics and dean of the faculty at Talbot School of Theology. Kamil points out that there is a mismatch between the magnitude of the claim and the attention they pay to documenting it. Thinking about the Snyder "miracle", I do wonder why in these cases there isn't much more extensive medical documentation? 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. 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. but there comes a point when enough is enough. We know better now, and we often know what the minimum amount of data is to justify a particular claim. You don't understand why it happens to this person and not to that person. A legal scholar, Snyder was the first woman to serve as the Case Western's president. Scott Rae: Because I mean by any medical definition she had died. successor. candidates for its presidency.. They want the positive results and the authority that comes from the scientific enterprise, yet they aren't willing to put in the real work to earn that authority. President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that she will Scott Rae: And then she made it safely to the U.S. and then you were reunited again. 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. I am delighted that the board selected Barbara to lead AAU In some of these cases, I'm expecting evidence that should be there if the claim is true. I commented about it like. Regardless of the contents of the specific studies, this sort of fishing for positive results is thoroughly unscientific and casts significant doubt on any results from this institution. Medical science has come a long way recognizing the fact that humans are easily fooled, they see patterns and agency where there isn't any good evidence, and biology is messy enough that uncertainty is always something to consider. Yes, I'll look for these mundane explanations first before jumping to agency, because those are the most common explanations of extraordinary claims. You don't mix, say, corrected and uncorrected measurements in a timeline unless you provide both at every time point you have. She's had no recurrence. In Steven Novella's post at Proximal Intercessory Prayer, he comments (on a different case, but applicable here). Which I agree with, at least technically. Converted to Pelican theme by Brian Blais. It involves Barbara Snyder and took place nearly 30 years ago. Scott Rae: So how did, how did she become a war refugee? Then, on Pentecost Sunday, two of Synder's friends read her letters from those praying for her. Charisma News - Informing believers with news from a Spirit-filled perspective, The Real-Life Miracle That Absolutely Shocked This Atheist-Turned-Evangelist, Jesus performed the miracles described in the Gospels, Atheist-Turned-Apologist Lee Strobel Offers Clear Evidence for the Supernatural, Atheist-Turned-Apologist: I Would Have Smirked That Easter Falls on April Fools' Day, Click here to subscribe to the Charisma News newsletter. It seems we disagree on how much evidence is enough. I mean there was one person, it was so crazy. 2022 Blaze Media LLC. Scott Rae: I love how you put that, that healing now is a foretaste of the Glory of the Kingdom. But there are a number of cases like that. She is the former president of Case Western Reserve University. The good news will be preached to the poor. This kind of phrasing is trying to stop people from being skeptical of their claims (and only their claims). Biography [ edit] Is this case unusual? All subjects demonstrated improvement from the intervention. So if I'm dealing with historic, historiographic questions, historical reliability questions, I needed to deal with the issue of whether these kinds of things could happen. You just wonder how legitimate are these miracle claims in the 21st century? Strobel said. DiSanto said that he would provide additional updates regarding the search What are some of the things that just sort of blew your mind that you researched, heard about, read about, came into first hand contact with as you explored this subject. In fact, history is full of bizarre coincidences that get downright creepy . Christians) than other groups. an 18-year-old female lost the majority of her central vision over the course of three months in 1959 and was later diagnosed with juvenile macular degeneration (JMD). I could just as well say that her brushing her teeth caused the healing, because she was healed in the evening shortly after she brushed her teeth. in economics from Southern Methodist University. "It got to the point where she was dying. We all don't get a sign or a wonder. 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. In response, Snyder said, "I am proud to be president of Case Western Reserve and intend to continue in this role for many years to come. Barbara Snyder is another one that's not in the book. Exactly when this point is depends on considerations around prior probability. Untrustworthy Our Cultural Knowledge Crisis, [BONUS] The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self. A gymnast back in high school, Barbara hadn't walked in seven years. If you complain that the standards are too high, then you don't belong on the playing field and you don't deserve to be taken seriously. Sometimes there really isn't enough available evidence to substantiate a claim. To be charitable to Elijah's point, perhaps he's meaning that if you pray for someone yourself in an impossible situation and there is improvement, you can tell the difference between the fake and real miracle personally. Advertisement. The same thing occurs with UFO claims, homeopathy studies, and psychic abilities. She, first of all she ended up having to flee from the capital where she was teaching French at the U.S. Embassy, sorry, she was teaching English at the U.S. Embassy for Francophone Congolese residents. I use some basic principles. Studies of distant intercessory prayer have been essentially negative we see the typical random scatter of results expected of an ineffective treatment, with no consistent pattern of positive results, and with the best studies being negative. 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. credentials as both a highly regarded research institution and as a place where Bizarrely, her calves were inflated and her once-atrophied muscles worked again and thats not all. View the profiles of people named Barbara Snyder. It's not impossible under theism, but it is an odd omission and speaks to God's motivation. We don't know the timeline at all or the specifics, or any actual measurements. "So, we know that at least 450 Christians began praying for her, because they wrote letters saying, 'We're praying for you.'". 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. its future, DiSanto said. We wouldn't conclude that these things actually happened as reported, especially given the gaps in the timelines. And then some months later war came to her hometown in [inaudible] and she had to flee again. Then a decade or so later, a replication study by Dr. William S. Harris and colleagues was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Were the results similar? This was a gold standard study of the effects of intercessory prayer on almost a thousand consecutively admitted coronary patients. Keener quotes a study that showed that half of the physicians studied said that they had seen what they consider to be miracles. Jonathan McLatchie vs Jonathan Pearce, documentation for the Barbara Snyder case, https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?s=control&category_name=&submit=Search, this woman was healed of Parkinson's with "Energy Healing". And he said because these precious people that never had a chance to be exposed to God's extravagant love, He works in extravagant ways to let them know. I mean these were mainstream Evangelical Christians and anyway, some of the critiques, and actually some of the praises from the Christians showed that they hadn't actually read the book either. patient on hospice healed by Jesus. 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. The Mayo Clinic had diagnosed Barbara with multiple sclerosis. 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. Craig Keener: Greg Spencer is a case of this. So tell our listeners some of the stories that you uncovered as a result of your research. In addition to Case Western Reserve, all So they investigated him for fraud. Stay up-to-date with current issues, Christian teachings, entertainment news, videos & more. "To this day.". It completely defies what is possible by any naturalistic means. It may not be a dramatic sign or wonder, but it's still an answer to prayer. also understands AAU and the broader university and scientific communities We will be fully healed with our resurrection bodies. Visit Pure Flix for access to thousands of faith and family friendly movies and TV shows. Could you imagine a similar claim written about, say, a homeopathic remedy for cancer? And her hands had been curled up so much that every few months they had to uncurl her hands to get the dead skin out. In principle I believed it, but I was questioning witnesses with kind of a skeptical approach to try to whittle away anything that wasn't necessarily accurate. It will be life-changing for those individuals, for sure, even under the condition where there are no miracles. The emotional language in the paper is a little unusual for a medical journal, and seems a bit sensationalist. And again, the group that received prayer had better outcomes than the control group. (p. 127). After a quick intro, the episode plays in full. They're not replicable but if there's a pattern like nine times out of ten where this happens it's in the context of prayer, that should say something. Each of the cases we've looked at have failed several or all of these properties of good investigation, and should not be believed. That's for when the Lord returns. He is the author of 24 books and there's a couple of books that I want to talk to you about today, Craig. The primary studies here are Case Studies, which are some of the lowest and least informative types of studies in medicine (see https://guides.library.stonybrook.edu/evidence-based-medicine/levels_of_evidence) with Meta-studies, Systematic reviews, and Randomized Controlled Studies being the most effective forms. It was easier for me for some cultures than for other cultures. I mean I, at the beginning I was expecting to find some reports of different kinds of healings that had already been collected in the booked. 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. Make sure you see our stories daily directly to your inbox. Doesn't seem to be anything other than perhaps theology. Barbara Snyder's healing from MS shocked doctors. Now obviously those numbers, none of us would say that all of those can only be explained as a miracle. 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.. Here's my comment. But after a while it just becomes so overwhelming, but I said, "You know, I'm too skeptical myself. Can you give me some examples? One of the first widely publicized studies was by Dr. Randolph Byrd, published in 1988 in the peer-reviewed Southern Medical Journal, she said. By this point, she was almost blind and . This is trying to have your cake and eat it too. 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. the natural explanation -- some natural healing plus the imaging being unreliable, the secondary measurement said "approximately 6 feet" as opposed to 3ft, so the "approximately" is doing a lot of work, perhaps under extreme damage there is more healing, but we haven't seen this in other cases because of the rarity of the effect. Partly, because we are human and have many biases. Now normally somebody's healed, they're still gonna have, their muscles are still going to be atrophied if they've been unable to walk for a long time. And also, a lot of my African friends say, "Look, life in Africa's a miracle. It also highlights the need for detailed timelines to establish what the effect really is, before trying to grasp at causes. I know we, we were really, really praying for him. Although MS can come in milder forms, Barbara's condition deteriorated quickly. Barbara spent years paralyzed, but stood up in an instant. There may be a difference between the way they look at things now vs the way they looked at it at the time of the event -- which is perfectly explainable under naturalism. Secondly we're talking about these things objectively, put yourself in situations where you can have experiential knowledge: pray for sick people that you know they would not be healed unless God showed up. That said, before writing The Case for Miracles, Strobel was "ambivalent" about whether these miracles still happen today. So we're talking about something like hundreds of millions of people. My initial thought was that , A physics problem from a practice AP test came to my attention, when my daughter was in AP physics this past spring. [4], Following the announcement that Gordon Gee would retire as President of the Ohio State University effective July 1, 2013, speculation arose that Snyder, the former Provost and Executive Vice President of Ohio State, could succeed Gee. I don't believe Barbara Snyder was cured by the intervention of some agent outside the natural world. One day, one of her friends called WMBI, which is the radio station in Chicago run by the Moody Bible Institute, and said, 'Pray for Barbara. That's such a good way to frame that. 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? That's a gift from God." (Read also:Are the Biblical End Times upon us? "Barbara Snyder was diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic with multiple sclerosis. partnerships that have drawn national acclaim. Click here to subscribe to the Charisma News newsletter. You look at the seven churches of Asia in the Book of Revelation. I mean you could see it, the stories are so compelling that just based on the empirical data that you have, I found the case for miracles pretty hard to refute. Did she go back to Congo after her PhD studies? It's always possible to ask for more (Couldn't more doctors have seen it? Yeah, I think of my friend Nabeel Qureshi. Keener: in terms of anomalies whether they're anomalies or whether they're explainable in some way it helps if there's a pattern. And the third thing she noticed was she was see it with her eyes. Barbara Snyder (Barbara Cummiskey Snyder) - healed from multiple sclerosis The institution that is referenced for the work is Global Medical Research Institute (GMRI) and the documentary about miracles referenced is Send Proof. Strobel went on to explain that he interviewed skeptics and believers, alike, and included their perspectives in The Case for Miracles. 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