Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts

by Craig S. Keener

what the evidence is for their occurrence and only afterward a question of divine causation. While the collision of a comet and a planet are rare enough to appear improbable for a given time frame, one cannot rule out that they occurred in the past or might yet occur. Based on knowledge of planets and comets, we might even predict a very likely occurrence for a given finite time frame rather than denying its likelihood based on the usual failure of planets and comets to collide.[321] Similarly, the probability that a reliable witness tells the truth about an event that appears anomalous in view of current knowledge can be supported if other anomalies are observed; the additional question of divine causation then strengthens the plausibility of these observations by providing a coherent intellectual framework in which to explain them.