Re: Religious miracles with possible scientific explanations
That is a hard question to answer. I guess it will depend on what the specific ‘miracle’ is and the situation around it.
Let me try to explain it using an example, I’m not sure this is exactly a miracle but close enough:
Growing up I have always heard the hadith about the Sun rising from the West as a sign of Judgment day. Now I know some people may not believe in hadiths or this particular hadith but just go along with me here. Now if one day I wake up to the Sun rising from the West or I see it on the news all over the world…what would be my honest knee jerk response? Would I try to find a logical scientific reason how this happened out of nowhere? Or would I run, find a jaanmaz and start praying my heart out?
As much as I would like to think I am a woman of science…I would do the latter. Because at the end of the day, I believe. I have faith. For me that risk wouldn’t be worth it.
Do I believe that the person who tries to find an scientific answer behind such a phenomenon is wrong? No not necessarily. Because if enough time has passed I would probably due to same…but my knee jerk response would be to believe.