Miracles and the Modern Mind: A Defense of Biblical Miracles (Biblia.com)

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Geisler shows how the laws of logic and science speak to the reasonableness of miracles. A dispassionate look at the facts and arguments demands that doubters question their own naturalistic assumptions. Geisler also describes "signs," "wonders," and "power," contrasting what the Bible means by a miracle with bizarre stories of saints, faith healers, and occultists.

credible, is mere beating the air until the arguers have agreed what they mean by the word ‘miracle.’”1 Theists have defined miracles in either a weak or a strong sense. Following Augustine, some define a miracle as “a portent [that] is not contrary to nature, but contrary to our knowledge of nature.”2 Others, following Aquinas, define a miracle in the strong sense of an event that is beyond nature’s power to produce, that only a supernatural power (God) can do. This latter sense is the meaning

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