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Most people would agree that if a wet pile of glass shards lept from the floor and assembled itself on a table top as a tumbler full of water, this would be a miracle.  If they saw this on a movie screen they would insist the film was running in reverse.  Since the laws of motion governing individual atoms are completely time-reversible, there are no intractable natural barriers to this happening.  But since there are only a few possible states where the aggregate of glass molecules exist as a tumbler of water and many more possible states where they exist as a pile of shards, in practice such an occurrence would be ''extremely'' unlikely to occur even once, anywhere in the universe, even after an interval much greater than the current age of the universe.  The actual mechanics of miraculously restoring the tumbler would not violate the laws of nature, but the cause of the event could only be rooted in a [[supernatural]] will.

Most people would agree that if a wet pile of glass shards lept from the floor and assembled itself on a table top as a tumbler full of water, this would be a miracle.  If they saw this on a movie screen they would insist the film was running in reverse.  Since the laws of motion governing individual atoms are completely time-reversible, there are no intractable natural barriers to this happening.  But since there are only a few possible states where the aggregate of glass molecules exist as a tumbler of water and many more possible states where they exist as a pile of shards, in practice such an occurrence would be ''extremely'' unlikely to occur even once, anywhere in the universe, even after an interval much greater than the current age of the universe.  The actual mechanics of miraculously restoring the tumbler would not violate the laws of nature, but the cause of the event could only be rooted in a [[supernatural]] will.

[[C.S. Lewis]] argues that if the supernatural does not exist then we would judge things as right or wrong merely because we have been caused to do so by ''natural'' laws. All our moral judgments would rest on the amoral system of nature.  On the other hand, if we can’t reject morality altogether, then we must reject materialism, for then our moral judgments would be grounded in a reality that existed above the merely natural.  And by admitting that nature is not a closed system, we admit to the possibility of miracles.

[[C.S. Lewis]] argues that if the supernatural does not exist then we would judge things as right or wrong merely because we have been caused to do so by ''natural'' laws. All our moral judgments would rest on the amoral system of nature.  On the other hand, if we can't reject morality altogether, then we must reject materialism, for then our moral judgments would be grounded in a reality that existed above the merely natural.  And by admitting that nature is not a closed system, we admit to the possibility of miracles.

== The reliability of witnesses ==

== The reliability of witnesses ==