Miracle: Just a puzzle science has not solved - Richard Dawkins [View All]

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Miracles, magic and myths are interesting. Everybody likes a good story. But truth has a magic of its own.

Just imagine how people in medieval times — even the most intelligent and educated — would react to a jet plane or a laptop computer.

They would call them "supernatural, miraculous." But we know how they work; we know how engineers have built them, following scientific principles. There is no need to invoke miracles or the supernatural.

A gang of Victorian criminals equipped with modern mobile phones could have coordinated their activities in ways that would have looked like supernatural telepathy to Sherlock Holmes. In Holmes's world, a suspect who could prove that he was in New York the same day a murder was committed in London would have a perfect alibi.

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