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Magazine Claims We Know Miracles Don't Happen

In a 2013 article in The New Yorker about faith and belief, Adam Gopnik made the following confident statement: "We know … that in the billions of years of the universe's existence, there is no evidence of a single miraculous intervention with the laws of nature." In the same article, Gopnik also concluded: "We need not imagine there's no heaven; we know there is none, and we will search for angels in vain."

Author Eric Metaxas replies to these remarkable claims:

Of course, the reason [Gopnik] makes these statements has to do with his presuppositions that this world is all there is. That way of seeing the world dismisses outright any possibility of anything beyond the material world of time and space. It can be summed up in the words of the late Carl Sagan, who glumly intoned, "The Cosmos is all there is and ever will be."

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