Just to have the words "inference to the best explanation" that legitimizes the inference that you're making rather than actually being able to use inference to the best explanation. They were saying "This is all from Congo. The precise timing of Snyders The situation was pretty hopelessuntil something quite shocking happened. And so I guess my first question is, what motivated you to undertake that because your field has been pretty technical New Testament studies. I mean there was one person, it was so crazy. I could show you cases of arms growing back theoretically speaking and you would not believe it you would come up with natural explanations. It doesn't mean to stop praying for healing. So I got what I could. In my discussion with Jonathan McLatchie on the Still Unbelievable podcast, I said that there hasnt been a verified miracle claim even since Humes essay on miracles. Regardless of the contents of the specific studies, this sort of fishing for positive results is thoroughly unscientific and casts significant doubt on any results from this institution. Feel free to reach out if you want more specifics on a given quote or study. This shows a profound lack of imagination on the part of the investigators, and I think shows their hand. One can have compelling evidence even when a case could be rendered stronger with even more evidence. 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? It's just like a lack of imagination there's just like Christian fundamentalism and there's atheist naturalism and there's no other world views, apparently. These theists are in fact arguing for a lower level of evidence than we demand of the universities and pharmaceutical companies for their claims. She is the former president of Case Western Reserve University. 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. These steps are in place to get at the truth, not to specifically put up barriers to rule out miracles. 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. Craig Keener: Yeah, I could give you a 1000 pages worth of examples, but I'll tell you one that really blew my mind and that was, because it was something so close to us. I went over her solutions when she did , Skepticism and Dubious Medical Procedures. It is interesting the Elijah seems to understand that we need evidence to believe a claim, that we need to weigh alternative hypotheses, but he seems to have no idea what a controlled study is or why it is necessary. I'm your host, Scott Rae, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. 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 because of the asthma he ended up not playing sports with the other kids. 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 . Syndersmiraculous healing, which unfolded more than 30 years ago, was apparently so shocking that even her doctors have written about her seemingly impossible medical turn-around. And, in fact, one doctor described her as being one of the most hopelessly ill patients he'd ever encountered.". Just, was it last night I think, we were talking and David Dockery was sharing about Grant Osbourne, a scholar friend of ours who passed away just this past month after an amazing career of scholarship, but when he was young he had asthma. Now of course, after six minutes with no oxygen you have irreparable brain damage starting in, but Terese had no brain damage. end of the fall 2020 semester. 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. Now there's a downside to everything. The good news will be preached to the poor. We have to have miracles. It's still healing. We had to cut 45% of it to make it as short as it was, but then again, I'm not known for writing short books. Now, Strobel, whose personal story was told through the Pure Flix feature film, book anddocumentarytitled The Case for Christ, has released The Case for Miracles, a new investigative book that relies on facts, interviews, and studies to further explore spiritual matters. Medine was a war refugee for 18 months in her country of Congo. There was no blinding or control group so everyone in the study, subjects and experimenters, knew that every subject was getting the treatment. Craig Keener: Yeah, and by the time Yeah and eventually it was over a 1000. Snyder ended up in hospice care with a no-resuscitation order; she was nearly blind, her hands and body were curled and she had a tube in her throat to help her breath as well as a tube in her stomach to ensure proper nourishment. That said, before writing The Case for Miracles, Strobel was ambivalent about whether these miracles still happen today. This means that the original measurements were not accurate enough to establish the lengths, and the follow-up that said it grew back are also not enough. This is trying to have your cake and eat it too. Craig Keener: In Matthew 11 and Luke Chapter 7, John the Baptist sends to Jesus because he hears the works of Jesus, he hears of these healings taking place and he says, "Are you the one the come or shall we wait for somebody else?" Barbara Rook "Babs" Snyder is an American academic and president of the Association of American Universities. What really annoys me is when they say "I could show you cases of arms growing back theoretically speaking and you would not believe it" when the best evidence they have barely rises to the level of being interesting, let alone something amazing like this. He died of stomach cancer at a, I think what was he? About a week and a half later at my daughter Allison's soccer there were like 20 families and 20 moms and dads there and one of the fathers that I had said hi to but i didn't know him, walks up to me and he says "Hi, I'm so-and-so" and I said "I'm JP" and he said "how are you doing?" Since these diseases are genetic, it makes it a lot less likely that she had this condition. I mean it's only a fraction of what's out there, but there was a Pew Forum Study done in, I think, 2006 of Pentecostals and Charismatics in 10 countries that concluded Well if you look at the percentages of Pentecostals and Charismatics who claimed to have witnessed divine healing and then the hard numbers of those in those countries, it comes out to somewhere around 200 million people in those 10 countries alone, who claim to have witnessed are experienced divine healing. If someone says a treatment works, even at the 1% level, it is tested carefully to see if it works -- especially if there are no obvious side effects. Brian: Well actually I think you can do a bit better than that by using essentially the case studies to say, okay, these are the sorts of situations where we would expect miracles to happen and what types of miracles we might see , sometimes we have things that go into remission so how do we rule that out, we have to come up with some kind of randomized control study in order to test miracles. The Mayo Clinic had diagnosed Barbara with multiple sclerosis. Here PhD is in history. 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? Healings, casting out spirits, nature miracles in Mark and so on. Also, while we have been generally optimistic that these miracle claims are not the result of deliberate fraud, one does have to consider that as a real possibility and find ways to rule it out. The point is to first establish that there is some interesting effect there, regardless of the cause, and only after passing that threshold do we get to consider a more in-depth investigation. 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. Stories of recalled past memories from past lives only occurs within religions that support reincarnation. The theists seem unwilling to do the work and want a pass anyway. life, President Snyder said. A legal scholar, Snyder was the first woman to serve as the Case Western's president. Although MS can come in milder forms, Barbara's condition deteriorated quickly. Scott Rae: Sounds like an amazing story. What about single cases? On this episode, she lays out the case for investing more in academic research, and what we may lose if we don't. Subscribe to Big Brains on Apple Podcasts , Stitcher and Spotify. And now she has a Masters degree from the seminary in Cameroon. And she'd also gone blind. The Association of American Universities (AAU), Fostering and Protecting Free Speech on Campus, Renew Investments in Vital Scientific Infrastructure, AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis, Progress Toward Achieving Systemic Change, The Strategic Role of a National Organization. Finding Miracles in the Moments April 8, 2022 by Barbara Snyder 16 Comments I love to explore the outdoors with my grandkids, especially when our adventures lead us into the woods. But my wife and I have also been through a series of miscarriages. It's the same reason large careful studies aren't done -- they simply don't care enough, and are already believing, so why bother? When I lay out the evidence for the (alleged) miraculous phenomena in the latter half of the episode, I blitz through various case studies, scientific studies, and quotes which I said I would post references too here. The fact that there are only two or three of these, that these are the best they have, given all of this time is damning evidence against their case that miracles actually occur at even the 1% level. Prayer, in her house, probably occurs even more frequently. The conventional wisdom that we hear kind of over and over again is that the prevalence of miraculous activity, is much more the developing world than it is in the west. You've done tremendous work on it that is a huge benefit to the Kingdom, not only with your technical biblical scholarship, but with this incredible stuff you've done on miracles. And around 39% of them claimed to have witnessed or experienced divine healing. If there's one thing I hope this film does for people that are inside of the Christian faith is that it makes them confident enough to go pray for sick people in impossible situations because that is a means to knowledge as well. My initial thought was that , A physics problem from a practice AP test came to my attention, when my daughter was in AP physics this past spring. They want the positive results and the authority that comes from the scientific enterprise, yet they aren't willing to put in the real work to earn that authority. Her doctors have written about her seemingly impossible medical turn around. And why aren't there miracle claims of people spontaneously generating electricity? And she'd also been teaching some at the University there, but she had to flee the capital sick with malaria. Well I shouldn't say everybody, but lots of people have love stories. It's part of the lowering of the standards of evidence. In response, Snyder said, "I am proud to be president of Case Western Reserve and intend to continue in this role for many years to come. That said, before writing The Case for Miracles, Strobel was "ambivalent" about whether these miracles still happen today. It's not the fullness. Meanwhile, her muscles were atrophied. The way people like the stories highlights their way of thinking and provides a teachable moment about like why don't we trust claims just from the claims, even if it has a peer-reviewed journal article. First of all, is that true? In his most recent book, Strobel decided to look at miracles. 5 John Wilkes Booth's Brother and Abe Lincoln's Son . I am confident that Case Western Nathan's point here is interesting, especially in light of the idea that the murderer example is not being used in the right place, that Elijah has this set of standard "tools" that he pulls out but doesn't seem to understand their use or limitations and is prone to misapply them. Strobel went on to explain that he interviewed skeptics and believers, alike, and included their perspectives in The Case for Miracles. At the end of the project, Strobel said he was shocked to learn that miracles are not only common, but also well-documented. Second thing she noticed was her hands were open. She went back. There isn't anything that could tie the prayer as the causal element, given that she was most likely prayed for often an we're picking out the one case before a claimed recovery. This would certainly be testable. in economics from Southern Methodist University. View the profiles of people named Barbara Snyder. It will be life-changing for those individuals, for sure, even under the condition where there are no miracles. She was blind, bedridden with severely impaired breathing due to a paralyzed diaphragm and a collapsed lung. He has a Ph.D. and M.A. Then, on Pentecost Sunday, two of Synder's friends read her letters from those praying for her. That's a gift from God." I sort of think that these popular apologetics books will briefly touch on some of these tools that should be used but then that's a stand-in that makes people think that they're actually using them. A legal scholar, Snyder was the first woman to serve as the Case Western's president. He seems really swayed by anecdotal evidence in everything he's written or said, from my experience. 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. University (CWRU) in July 2007, will join the Association of American Universities (AAU) by the As James says, "God really needs to up his game.". There may be a difference between the way they look at things now vs the way they looked at it at the time of the event -- which is perfectly explainable under naturalism. Barbara Snyder (Barbara Cummiskey Snyder) healed from multiple sclerosis. Secondly we're talking about these things objectively, put yourself in situations where you can have experiential knowledge: pray for sick people that you know they would not be healed unless God showed up. This phrase shows a profound lack of understanding what skepticism is. The primary studies here are Case Studies, which are some of the lowest and least informative types of studies in medicine (see https://guides.library.stonybrook.edu/evidence-based-medicine/levels_of_evidence) with Meta-studies, Systematic reviews, and Randomized Controlled Studies being the most effective forms. He ended up reading and it led him into a life of scholarship. To learn about us and today's guest, Dr. Craig Keener and to find more episodes, go to biola.edu/thinkbiblically. "It was really the miracle of the resurrection and the historical evidence for that that ended up bringing me to faith many years ago," Strobel told Pure Flix Insider and "The Billy Hallowell Podcast." It also highlights the need for detailed timelines to establish what the effect really is, before trying to grasp at causes. Do extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? 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Barbara would always declare, "I love this Bible study! in economics from Southern Methodist University. This one is obviously ludicrous, but I think undermines the theists claims quite a lot. In addition to Case Western Reserve, all And he went to a retreat for the healing of the mind. A blessing to the rest of the Body of Christ. At over 2 billion Christians, praying many times, if this was a real effect at the 1% level we'd expect millions of documented cases yearly -- certainly a large enough signal to experimentally verify. Craig Keener: Well I tried to get accounts from all over the world. How has the book been received, both in Christian circles and then outside Christian circles? 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. Without further data, it is impossible to rule out these things, but you'd think the data would be available with something this recent? My oldest grandson loves to run and is always racing ahead, scampering up hills and sliding down ravines faster than the rest. At least there is documentation published at https://seangeorge.com.au/my-story/medical-details/. [3] Before Snyder became president of CWRU in July 2007, she was formerly the executive vice president and provost of Ohio State University. So what's your response when you pray, lots of people pray, and a miracle doesn't happen? But anyway, all healing is temporary because sooner or later we're gonna die unless the Lord comes back before then. Is it possible to start by eliminating the theistic hypothesis? Barbara spent years paralyzed, but stood up in an instant. ), 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. We also can't rule out that he was prayed for many many times in 16 years, and only at this particular time for some other reason he recovered. There are any examples of this, so see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15166467/ and https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/full-moon-does-not-affect-mental-health-emergency-room-study-suggests as a couple. 2021 - All rights reserved. (Warner Brothers even invited me onto the movie set to watch some of the filming and to meet the engaging actress.) This is the reason the specifics matter. We really appreciate your taking the time to come be on the podcast with us. The entire approach of those arguing for miracles focuses on the (presumed) successes but in any real study for a treatment, we need to know all of the cases -- the ones that worked and the ones that didn't -- to provide evidence of efficacy. Read Barbara's Blog for blog posts and speeches from the Presidenton prominent and emerging issues facing research universities and the broader higher education community. Scott Rae: Wow, I guess it did. Of course this is ludicrous, because teeth-brushing would occur twice a day, every day, so every single event would follow a teeth-brushing. National Colloquium on Library Special CollectionsPresident's RemarksBarbara Snyder, President, Case Western Reserve University10/22/2014President's remarksC. But it's the same situation you have in the Gospels. One day, one of her friends called WMBI, which is the radio station in Chicago run by the Moody Bible Institute, and said, 'Pray for Barbara. 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. 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. She worked as a teacher's aide for Headstart and was a member of St. Mary's Church in Elmira, NY. We know that the healing was observed after the prayer, but we don't know if it caused it because we can't rule out an earlier recovery that went unnoticed. [3] During Snyder's tenure as the university president, CWRU has overcome a $20 million budget deficit, increased fundraising by nearly $60 million, and increased research dollars by more than $15 million. Craig Keener: Yes. Has it been confirmed? It's not just saying that the evidence provided is lacking, but there is missing evidence that would be expected on the truth of the claim -- making it an argument against the claim. This last part is the reason we set up replication, controls, and other processes to minimize the effects of the limitations. Nathan: it's like he understands broadly what he should be doing but then that stands in place of him actually doing it it's like as if just finally having a bit of a grasp of how we should reason about the these things.suppose we agree with you now well why is that the best explanation? The timeline of the events from the paper is. And when you dig in and you start interviewing some of the people and looking at some of the medical documentation, we're not talking about a little bit of evidence. 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 . But there are a number of cases like that. Converted to Pelican theme by Brian Blais. Psychics do this all the time as well. They dont want you to see this Big Tech does its best to limit what news you see. James: can we just make it a thing to always mention that like although it's not that popular these days that deism or non-interventionist form of theism are a thing like you can totally believe in god and still not be okay with miracles? That's for when the Lord returns. 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. Earlier in her career, she served as provost of Ohio State University . So that's why Christianity featured that part. I think we can. Kamil points out that there is a mismatch between the magnitude of the claim and the attention they pay to documenting it. The situation was pretty hopeless until something quite shocking happened. I've written about this before about UFO claims, that they fall into two categories: There could potentially be a category 3 where the evidence does support the claim, but I have never seen it in any that I have personally investigated, either for UFO claims or for miracle claims. 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. All rights reserved. It also calls into question the motives of God -- God is more concerned to give you a pool table than to cure leukemia in children or heart defects or nearly anything else. "Barbara Snyder was diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic with multiple sclerosis. Dr. Craig Keener holds the F.M. If the Anchor.fm widget isnt showing up above, click here to listen. After a year or two of investigation they finally concluded, and we have all of the medical documentation, that no, he had, the way they put it in their letter from the Social Security Administration, "You have received a remarkable return of your visual acuity, therefore, you are no longer qualified for disability." Also there is this general trend of naturalism in which you are looked down upon if you believe that the supernatural can occur so there is this whole culture at play where the medical community is working against finding truth". Craig Keener: Probably what surprised me the most was the real evidence for it. We're talking about a lot of evidence. Join Facebook to connect with Barbara Snyder and others you may know. You need to collect the records, have a medical professional who can actually make sense of that data, and have a medical specialist who is willing to look at the data. Listen to Strobel describe his journey and the most memorable miracle hes encountered below: Strobel said that he has long believed thatJesus performed the miracles described in the Gospels. 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. Adding to that, he had some skepticism about some of the charlatans who have been exposed for making false claims about healings and the like. As James pointed out, individual testimony is irrelevant. He has a Ph.D. and M.A. 2023 Robert L. White All Rights Reserved. claims with no available data, so one can't investigate, so one shouldn't believe it, claims with available data, where one can investigate, and it's shown that the evidence doesn't support the claim, so one shouldn't believe it, establish base-rates for the natural recoveries, evaluate alternative explanations -- and their prior probabilities, include both the positive and negative outcomes of the treatment, have good controls and experimental design to remove confounders. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Note that the STEP study mentioned below is, Let me start by saying that there have been gold standard studies before and after STEP that reached the opposite conclusion: that the group receiving prayer had better outcomes, she said. The analogy doesn't work, and honestly I think this is a miracle talking-point that Elijah is misusing here. In all of human history there has never been one single credible and fully verified miracle cure. It seems we disagree on how much evidence is enough. 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. Since this is touted as one of the best, and one of only three papers ever seemingly cited when skeptics ask for evidence of miracles, is not impressive to say the least. A lot of these things were published in Asia. randomized controlled studies, well considered controls, etc) to avoid these confounders. And so that's kind of what prompted me to investigate this issue.. There was no medical help available in the village so she strapped the child to her back and ran to a nearby village where family friend [inaudible] was doing ministry. We can also ask how the miracle believer handles the many cases where seemingly miraculous things happen and no reported prayer, with disapearing disease without treatment? The maternal mortality rate in childbirth is so much higher there. In my discussion with Jonathan McLatchie on the Still Unbelievable podcast, I said that there hasnt been a verified miracle claim even since Humes essay on miracles. Whining that it's hard is just lame. By signing up to the Blaze News newsletter you agree to receive electronic communications from Blaze Media that may sometimes include advertisements or sponsored content. Barbara Snyder's healing from MS shocked doctors. 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