A Miracle?

A Greeley, CO. murder case solved after thirty years by matching an inmates DNA to blood on a piece of evidence, a sock, found near the crime scene is, says one interviewed (on nightly news, Channel 7), "a miracle of science".

What a contradiction of terms; modern science explains mechanisms, or utilizes them, to some ends--such as matching DNA; a miracle can be said to be the suspension of mechanisms and the natural laws that dictate them, such that though science can understand miracles in these terms, it cannot explain the suspension, how it occurred or was done.

Jesus 'restoring' (putting to health) a withered hand of a man who's been like that since birth, surrounded by all who have known the man since birth, is a miracle; matching DNA through mechanistic technology developed scientifically, is not.

Too often when someone is awed by the products of science, they call it a miracle; it is just as bad as when something extraordinary (extra ordinary)--uncommon--is acclaimed 'a miracle': the words spewed are evidencing the quality, and carelessness, of thought. Scientists, Philosophers, and Theologians often have some things in common: they have propensity to be irked by words used un- considered or poorly considered, or understood.