Craig Keener: It's my privilege. As James says, "God really needs to up his game.". And, in fact, one doctor described her as being one of the most hopelessly ill patients he'd ever encountered.". Some of them, some of the critiques were based on an interview with me that was published in Christianity Today, rather than the book itself. Second thing she noticed was her hands were open. Now, I know you can read headlines so you know this was a study of proximal intercessory prayer, but the point is even if you assess the details of the study divorced from knowledge of what the intervention is, it should be obvious that this study tells us nothing. Don't presume what I'll believe, show me evidence of an arm growing back first, then perhaps we'll see -- but I'd need the proper controls. Then he was prayed for and was instantly healed, could eat, and have his tubes removed. This last part is the reason we set up replication, controls, and other processes to minimize the effects of the limitations. Scott Rae: Because I mean by any medical definition she had died. I could just as well say that her brushing her teeth caused the healing, because she was healed in the evening shortly after she brushed her teeth. James: yes so think about what Shermer has done. Even her muscles were unatrophied. If you enjoyed our conversation today, give us a rating on your podcast app. It's like "no trust me, this is a legit methodology and it leads to the conclusion" and that's enough to legitimize your reasoning process. This seems really strange, if we are to believe the magnitude of the healing -- she claims to have gone from nearly blind to nearly perfect instantaneously, yet doesn't get this checked out immediately? fall transition to the AAU will depend on the progress of the search process. It is quite clear that once you allow one miraculous healing in, using evidence of just one person, then one has to let in a whole host of others. Healings, casting out spirits, nature miracles in Mark and so on. Even in seemingly obvious cases. of the members of the University Athletic Association are part of the AAU. Scott Rae: When we meet the Lord face to face. Barbara spent years paralyzed, but stood up in an instant. Craig Keener: Yeah. Prophetic messages from respected leaders & news of how God is moving throughout the world. She worked as a teacher's aide for Headstart and was a member of St. Mary's Church in Elmira, NY. A doctor won't want to look at a regrown kidney because it will look like he did insurance fraud. And the way we proceed is that we use medical science to eliminate the six and we can't really confirm or disconfirm the last remaining one but because we eliminated all of the alternatives that must be the one right or at least it's reasonable to believe that this is the one -- it's the best explanation. Thank you for being with us. So sometimes we don't see the outcome. He is the author of 24 books and there's a couple of books that I want to talk to you about today, Craig. All rights reserved. Personally I like looking into the details of miracle claims because they spotlight the scientific process, when it is misused or when people try to use the authority of science but don't want to go through the admittedly hard work to earn it. It's in American History, which is not, well there's a lot of Americans who can teach American History, so she especially teaches French. It got to the point where she was dying. James says, to refuse to put in the controls to avoid the biases we know we have, is a form of dogmatism -- we're looking for the result we already believe and we refuse to put in the methods that would allow us to isolate the different variables. If you complain that the standards are too high, then you don't belong on the playing field and you don't deserve to be taken seriously. Snyder, who became president of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in July 2007, will join the Association of American Universities (AAU) by the end . Craig Keener, Michael Shermer & Elijah Stephens and a video with Sean McDowell interviewing Craig Keener called Latest Evidence for Modern Miracles. A document going through these particular medical statements with citations can be found here. Scott Rae: That's staggering to think about. Barbara R. Snyderis president of the Association of American Universities. We see this with homeopathy, where well-controlled studies are negative and then dismissed because treatments were not individualized. perhaps a misdiagnosis of Stargardt's disease, and a gradual improvement for other reasons. From Send Proof Elijah StephensI didn't realize how difficult it would be [to find evidence for miracle healings]. 13800 Biola Ave, La Mirada CA 90639 BiolaUniversity, Inc. All Rights Reserved. So what's your response when you pray, lots of people pray, and a miracle doesn't happen? That's such a good way to frame that. But I'm grateful for the, the engagement that's come since then because there has been a lot of good engagement and people have taken it seriously and taken to heart some of the arguments in it. Craig Keener: Yes. Barbara Snyder, JD'80, is president of the Association of American Universities (AAU), an organization composed of America's leading research universities. The response is, essentially, that I am demanding too much evidence. Barbara Snyder's healing from MS shocked doctors. Is it possible she was misdiagnosed -- it wasn't MS, so looking for an MS recovery may be misdirected? This article wasoriginally published on Pure Flix Insider. Without further data, it is impossible to rule out these things, but you'd think the data would be available with something this recent? To be charitable to Elijah's point, perhaps he's meaning that if you pray for someone yourself in an impossible situation and there is improvement, you can tell the difference between the fake and real miracle personally. We originally met when we were, she was an exchange student and I was doing my PhD in New Testament at Duke. Craig Keener: Yeah, and by the time Yeah and eventually it was over a 1000. At any given time some member of the family was deathly sick from malaria or typhoid or something else. He is the F.M. It would seem that these people are constantly dealing with skeptics, and the easiest way to address it would be to get the pre- and post- medical test data rather than a summary by one doctor, after the fact. As Nathan puts it, it's telling believers who doubt "stop those naughty thoughts." his term as board chair this Junewill lead a national search for her Join us for this fascinating discussion of miracles today. "It got to the point where she was dying. It is suitable for those who love nice illustrations. Scott Rae: So how did, how did she become a war refugee? One can have compelling evidence even when a case could be rendered stronger with even more evidence. So that's why Christianity featured that part. A comparison of base-rates is needed and Keener doesn't seem to care about this when it comes to miracles. And just trying to stay ahead of the soldiers and the fighting. Subjects reported impaired vision or hearing at the beginning of the study and were tested with standard vision or audiology tests before and after treatment. The fact that the best theists can come up with are so readily handled should be a caution to anyone trusting their claims. "[5], In 2011, Cleveland.com reported Barbara R. Snyder's total compensation for the year of 2009 was $778,874.[6]. You're an expert on the life and teachings of Paul. in social ethics from the University of Southern California, a Th.M. So we interviewed Antoinette Malumbay. We can see the stories changing in the telling, being simplified, critical details dropped. If something is real, when we can more carefully observe it, it becomes easier to see not harder. Is it possible that there was MS and something else, in which case looking for a full recovery from MS is misdirected? Could it be an illusion? However studies also show about 80% of ER nurses and 64% of ER doctors believe lunar cycles affect patients' mental health, even though the data do not support such an effect. But she starts dancing around, jumping around. Shermer: well the counterfactual what about the christian families who pray for their loved one who's dying from cancer and they just die nothing happens from the prayer that happens all the time. I, sometimes I'll joke it's obvious looking at me that healing doesn't always happen. At the beginning I didn't find all that. And again, the group that received prayer had better outcomes than the control group. (p. 127). Craig Keener: I think it's true in some places more than in others. The dead will be raised." Despite several operations and treatments, Barbara continued to deteriorate to the point that she was put into respite with doctor's orders not to resuscitate. That's for when the Lord returns. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Try comparing these claims to, say, the difficulty in confirming the Higgs boson, gravity waves, black holes, or the accelerating universe. "Barbara Snyder was diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic with multiple sclerosis. What problems are you interested in? From the Send Proof film they admit that they can't publish Bruce Van Natta case because the accurate measurement of the length of intestine needed to verify the result we don't have the technology yet. We would not believe any medical claim that didn't have these properties, so we are not having too high of a standard -- we are just refusing to lower the standard in these cases. There was no blinding or control group so everyone in the study, subjects and experimenters, knew that every subject was getting the treatment. She is the former president of Case Western Reserve University. Christian epistemologist, software engineer, musician, not necessarily in that order. Craig Keener: Well I tried to get accounts from all over the world. In some of these cases, I'm expecting evidence that should be there if the claim is true. A gymnast back in high school, Barbara hadn't walked in seven years. One needs larger than \(N=1\) to establish these effects -- which is why case studies are so ineffective at doing so. It's not biased to be skeptical. Once you admit that getting a pool table after prayer is a miracle, then you've admitted that your standards of evidence are outrageously poor. This highlights many of the problems I've been talking about and we get to see it in real-time. What surprised you? It is justified to demand better evidence, because we do that for even more modest claims, and we have centuries of data on the failings of human reasoning in inferring causes from effects. These steps are in place to get at the truth, not to specifically put up barriers to rule out miracles. I wasn't able to be in touch with her for that year and a half, but I didn't know if she was alive or dead. It is a notable pattern for something to become less observable to more carefully you're able to observe it. We make a mistake in the episode here about corrected vs uncorrected vision measurements. These are both testable, yet there seems to be little effort by theists to improve the studies, they seem to rather prefer falling back on case studies. It is a reasonable question to ask -- how much evidence is enough? This is like the difference between theists asking skeptics to explain how the disciples ate fish with Jesus, when in reality what we have to explain is that we have a text that has a story where the disciples ate fish with Jesus. This effect has been seen a lot, but a good example is the Rendelsham Forest UFO sighting where there is a big difference between the original reports and the later reports or the Barney and Betty Hill case of alien abduction where one can track the contamination of the story to popular media depictions of aliens. I mean Grant still prayed for healing all his life. And she'd also been teaching some at the University there, but she had to flee the capital sick with malaria. ), This was an instantaneous healing of all of her symptoms and all of her illness to the point where 31 years later she's completely healthy, Strobel said. As she listened, she said that she heard a male voice coming from the corner of the room a voice she now believes was God. It also includes the audio recording of Duane Miller as he is being spontaneously healed of his permanent, severe vocal chord damage. in Old Testament from Dallas Theological Seminary, and a B.A.S. We know better now, and we often know what the minimum amount of data is to justify a particular claim. She never quotes her doctors about her condition, and provides no documentation whatsoever -- there is simply nothing to work with. Biography [ edit] Western Reserves president has been the greatest professional privilege of my such profound challenges across so many fronts, I felt an obligation to answer How would you eliminate the hypothesis that a miracle did in fact happen? Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and. What is being missed here is it shouldn't matter what the skeptic says -- the evidence should be strong enough to convince the skeptic. Knowledge falls on a continuum. So for example, if I just say oh well there was spontaneous remission you could say that's implausible given our medical knowledge but it's going to be very hard to establish that that's actually like impossible, to definitively rule it out and so the question of which is a more plausible explanation and not can you rule it out. -pomelo- 9 mo. Case Western Reserves Board of Trustees Craig Keener: Yes. James rightly points out that the most these people ever seem to provide is: The timeline definitely matters, especially if you're claiming a causal relationship. Since these diseases are genetic, it makes it a lot less likely that she had this condition. The university has retained Spencer Stuart to assist in this search. Craig thanks so much for being with us. I wrote about some of these cases in another post and I've written about miracles many times. "Barbara Snyder was diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic with multiple sclerosis. One of the remarkable stories recounted in Lee Strobel's book "The Case for Miracles" involves a hopelessly ill woman named Barbara Snyder, who had suffered for many years with multiple sclerosis. Barbara Cummiskey Snyder is on Facebook. Scott Rae: Close, Medine. Even the supplementary information doesn't rule this out, where they have some reports in the 16 years but don't say they've been attempting oral feedings. Barbara Snyder (Barbara Cummiskey Snyder) - healed from multiple sclerosis The institution that is referenced for the work is Global Medical Research Institute (GMRI) and the documentary about miracles referenced is Send Proof. They are claiming there is a causal effect, they are claiming that these things happen regularly enough to be observed, yet they want to hide behind the idea that it is somewhat random and not actually try to test it. my peers call to work on behalf of all of our institutions.. The James Randi foundation did this as well, with a preliminary test before the more in-depth test. Likewise, Americans are quite prone to believing in the potential occurrence of miracles. Author and evangelist Lee Strobel was once an atheist who served as the legal affairs editor for the Chicago Tribune before embarking on a quest to try and disprove Christianity an effort that ironically led him to embrace faith. well; Barbara is a perfect fit.. Anyway, so it's the story of how we got together. He wrote to the Social Security Administration saying, "I'm not blind anymore." Following her M.S. The story is that the Dr Sean George had a heart attack, a thousand chest compressions, many electric shocks, went on for an hour and half -- Keener says 5 minutes without oxygen, flat line for an hour and a half. So these are signs of the Kingdom, their foretaste of the Kingdom, but we're still longing for the day we're gonna see him face to face. I mean there was one person, it was so crazy. What problems are you interested in? It was predicted that she would die soon. placebo, memory contamination, fraud, spontaneous remission, etc) that will confound the effect so scientists have set up steps (e.g. And then the book that tells the story of your relationship to your wife called Impossible Love. She actually had to have a breathing tube because even her diaphragm didn't work on its own. Keener: in terms of anomalies whether they're anomalies or whether they're explainable in some way it helps if there's a pattern. There were plenty of other stories just like it, too. Her energy, integrity, and powerful commitment to collaboration have led to progress and partnerships that would have been unimaginable when she first arrived.. Like that's just assuming what you wanted to establish. This example is a category 1 miracle claim. At the end of the project, Strobel said he was shocked to learn that miracles are not only common, but also well-documented. Kamil: so he basically said, look the way we do it is that we have, let's say seven different possible explanations, six of them are naturalistic which we can disconfirm using science and then the seventh is the explanation that God did it. I would add that most of these people are praying most of the time, so it's kind of like looking for astrological causes behind earthquakes -- since earthquakes happen all the time, you can always find one preceding or succeeding any other event you want. But I think there's a good representative sample. God could choose methods that are not so easily confused with memory biases, measurement errors, and other distortions and it is suspicious that he doesn't operate that way. But there, the book is just full, both volumes, full of these remarkable stories like this. It's always possible to ask for more (Couldn't more doctors have seen it? God can heal us through medicine. As an Atheist, of course it didn't. "And so that's kind of what prompted me to investigate this issue.". and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky. And why aren't there miracle claims of people spontaneously generating electricity? in Old Testament from Dallas Theological Seminary, and a B.A.S. Thu 03 February 2022 In principle I believed it, but I was questioning witnesses with kind of a skeptical approach to try to whittle away anything that wasn't necessarily accurate. And we give Glory to God whenever we get the opportunity to be a part of those, but it's, we don't expect that, that the Kingdom, that we'll have experienced the Kingdom in its fullest now. He ended up reading and it led him into a life of scholarship. CT Patterns of Lung Disease, Dr.. And you just Well that was one of the reasons people argued against their reliability. Contains the quotes I read aloud about Barbara Snyder (healed from M.S.) Scott Rae is professor of Christian ethics and dean of the faculty at Talbot School of Theology. Scott Rae: Sounds like an amazing story. Prior to that, she served as president of Case Western Reserve University from 2007 to 2020, where she encouraged interdisciplinary excellence, catalyzed institutional collaboration, and reinvigorated alumni engagement and fundraising. Sometimes we don't even get healing in this physical body in this life, but when it happens to any of us it's a reminder to all of us of God's plans for us. I know we, we were really, really praying for him. The first step -- which the theists have not achieved -- is to just demonstrate that there is a real effect to be investigated. It was from a different Congo so the person who did that doesn't know their geography. Though he believed the Biblical stories of Christs miracles, Strobel was less convinced miracles were happening today. And then I said "In Jesus's name, Amen" and so we moved on. He encountered scores of healings and other claims of the miraculous along the way, but there was one case in particular that truly blew his mind: the case of Barbara Snyder. Bad Apologetics Ep 20 - Miracles & even MORE even NEWER Resurrection evidence, Unbelievable? Visit Pure Flix for access to thousands of faith and family friendly movies and TV shows. It's not impossible under theism, but it is an odd omission and speaks to God's motivation. Her blindness, too, had been instantaneously healed. candidates for its presidency.. Snyder, who became president of Case Western Reserve Some were tested in persecution. These theists are in fact arguing for a lower level of evidence than we demand of the universities and pharmaceutical companies for their claims. Today we can point to solid finances, Couldn't the medical records have been earlier?) Is it possible to start by eliminating the theistic hypothesis? It's just his Baptist church group from just like maybe a half a dozen people to 600 members from, almost all from non-Christian backgrounds. Tag: Barbara Snyder healing miracle ms. Well I shouldn't say everybody, but lots of people have love stories. Do you have a testimony that is medically verified?. Each of the cases we've looked at have failed several or all of these properties of good investigation, and should not be believed. Thus we will more often hear from the healing crowd. He became a Christian in 1981 shortly after he decided to investigate Jesus and the Christian faith after his wife became a Christian. If miracles are real then these steps -- while possibly inconvenient -- would be easy to demonstrate. Eventually I found some of it, but what surprised me was the dramatic nature of some of this. He is, let's just say he is one of the most prolific biblical scholars that I'm aware of and is so productive. Chris Gunderson who was born with an incurable disorder called Chronic Pseudo Obstruction Syndrome, which was cured by prayer. In McLatchie's response, he said of my criticism of the claimed Barbara Synder healing. "Barbara Snyder was diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic with multiple sclerosis. It should further be noted that the subjects in the study were not chosen from the random population but from a self-selected group that already believe in the efficacy of the treatment. The precise timing of Snyders If you took our remedy, and improved, we want to hear from you. Here's where consistency comes in and the desiderata of Jaynes. #media. Of course, it's possible her sight was perfect and declined in the 2 years between the "healing" and the measurement which would call into question the miraculous nature. Further, the authors admit, although they do not disclose the data, that previous attempts to document response to the treatment in other populations have failed. The fact that someone can come up with a simple idea like that, and none of the studies include these sorts of considerations, show that the theists aren't even trying to test their ideas. But even with miracles, life expectancy is higher here than in Africa. Barbara Snyder was diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic with multiple sclerosis. As you begin your hike, set your sights on a new direction. This one actually is, I think this one is not in the book because I came across this afterwards. Stay up-to-date with current issues, Christian teachings, entertainment news, videos & more. And I talked with two of her doctors from the time and they both testified, "Yes, this is, there's no medical explanation for this." You've written a lot of commentaries on the Gospels. We only have the stories. However, after analyzing several miracles Strobel is convinced they are. She did it. It's not enough to show an effect that's really rare, maybe that's your first motivation, like "oh wow, this is a weird case. She had to stop and think to kind of calculate, well to get from this village to that village with this mountain and that mountain, she said, "About three hours.". That said, before writing The Case for Miracles, Strobel was ambivalent about whether these miracles still happen today. Synder's miraculous healing, which unfolded more than 30 years ago, was apparently so shocking that even her doctors have written about her seemingly impossible medical turnaround. episode: Is there medical evidence for miracles? READ ALSO: Columbine Survivor's Powerful Lessons After Facing Terror. In A nice illustration of Even Miracles Take A Little Time-the miracle. The deaf will hear. This male voice coming from the corner of the room where nobody was said, 'Get up my child and walk, Strobel recounted. Please open it and confirm your subscription. ", Scott Rae: Yeah, so you had to, I guess you had to check your own-. The fact that they can only produce two or three, with serious procedural and reporting issues, is strong evidence that this effect is non-existent. Scott Rae: Well that gets us to the books that I want to talk more about today. Never miss a big news story again. the natural explanation -- some natural healing plus the imaging being unreliable, the secondary measurement said "approximately 6 feet" as opposed to 3ft, so the "approximately" is doing a lot of work, perhaps under extreme damage there is more healing, but we haven't seen this in other cases because of the rarity of the effect. The first doctor report is two years after the event (the event in 1972, the doctor visit in 1074)? Strobel, 66, is a former investigative journalist with the Chicago Tribune. We really appreciate your taking the time to come be on the podcast with us. It just really annoys me this is always conflated. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute. What do atheists think of Barbara Snyder, who was healed of all her symptoms and all her illness to the point where 31 years later she's completely healthy? We have seen this with acupuncture after well-controlled trials were negative, some proponents decided that pragmatic (i.e. And that was, that was really hard. Elijah: I think this: the fact that there are fake miracles does not preclude the fact that there can be real miracles. Is this case unusual? A noted Christian scholar and ethicist, Scott is the author of such books as Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics; Business for the Common Good; and Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics. Presidents of Case Western Reserve University, President of Case Western Reserve University, "President Snyder expresses gratitude for CWRU community, bids farewell; video reflects on her tenure", "Case Western Reserve's Barbara Snyder's had a successful rebuilding year", "CWRU's Snyder earns no end of accolades", "What's next for Ohio State after Gee's retirement? Previously, she has served as chair of the board of directors of the American Council on Education, chair of the board of directors at the Business-Higher Education Forum, vice chair of the board of trustees of Internet2, a member of the board of directors of the Greater Cleveland Partnership, a member of the board of directors of Jobs Ohio, a trustee ofUniversity Circle Inc., and a member of the Ohio Business Roundtable. So I guess, what surprised you the most as a result of your study from when you set out to do this to when you got to the end? 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