Miracles
and Physics
Stanley L. Jaki
Miracles do happen though they may not be
witnessed by physicists.
Classic scoffers at miracles have invariably hidden a doubtful reasoning
in their specious references to Newtonian physics. The same is true of
some theologian-physicists who take the indeterminacy principle of quantum
mechanics for a loophole for miracles.
The author, himself a theologian and a physicist,
see in the recognition
of miracles a litmus test of sound philosophy and reasoned religion.
With an international renown as a historian and philosopher of science,
he offers this book as a shield against two dangers: One is the lure of
the demythologizers of miracles with their protestations of respect for
the demands of the scientific world view. The other is the popularity of
those who, in order to keep miracles, offer a mistaken interpretation of
modern physics and are left with no miracles at all.