It's a Miracle!?: What Modern Science Tells Us about Popular Bible Stories - Softcover

Clay Farris Naff is the science and religion correspondent for Humanist magazine. An award-winning journalist and author, he has been a Tokyo correspondent for United Press International, a freelance reporter for National Public Radio, a science-and-religion columnist for the Metanexus Institute, and a freelance writer for Newsweek, Earth Magazine, and Scientific American, among other publications.

"You’ll learn a lot about science and a lot about scripture from this light-hearted yet serious-minded look at the Bible." —Steven Pinker,
Johnstone Professor, Harvard University, and author of Enlightenment Now

"Most people conceive of God as a supernatural being outside of nature. If so, then how can we ever know anything about him through natural means? We can’t. That’s why miracles are so important to believers. A miracle is when a supernatural God reaches into the natural world to effect some change, such as curing cancer or averting a storm in response to a petitionary prayer. But are miracle stories true, in some scientific sense? Clay Farris Naff attempts to answer this question for the most famous miracle stories in the most entertaining book I’ve read on the subject. —Michael Shermer, Publisher Skeptic magazine, columnist Scientific American, Presidential Fellow Chapman University, author of Why People Believe Weird Things, The Believing Brain, The Moral Arc, and Heavens on Earth

"In It’s a Miracle!?, Clay Naff does a masterful job of discussing religious miracles from the perspective of modern science and reason. He explores what meant by science and reason, and how this can be applied to stories from the Bible. Naff’s wit also makes it entertaining to read and explore these ancient tales. This would be a good read for everyone from a college professor to a retired coal miner." —Ted W. Reid, PhD,
professor, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

"Clay Farris Naff’s elegant writing style provides an excellent analysis of whether science can be reconciled with biblical miracles... [A] must read for the skeptic and believer alike!" —Brad Ericson, PhD, biologist