Are there any scientifically approved miracles?

The Word 'miracle' and the expression 'scientifically proved' are diametrically opposites. A miracle is called a miracle, simply because it has NOT BEEN SCIENTIFICALLY PROVED. If it were scientifically proved, then the Word 'miracle' would not be used.

Therefore the question really needs to be on the order of: -- Is a miracle, of necessity, 'impossible'?

At one time, technological accomplishments were viewed as impossible because those things were beyond man's ability to do, or even to foresee.

The thought of putting a human on the moon; sending a vehicle to Mars; mapping the genetic code; even seeing news events happen in real-time right in your own living room, was scientifically not possible.

But as President Ronald Reagan said: ". . . yesterday's impossibilities (are) commonplace realities of today." Why? Because of that fact that there is a CONSTANT LEARNING going on about a variety of the sciences; combined with thousands of EXPERIMENTS.

Professor John Brobeck said: "A scientist is no longer able to say honestly that something is impossible. . . . He may be able to say something is impossible to explain in terms of our present knowledge. . . . one thing that needs to be added, is a source of energy unknown to us in our biological and physiological sciences. In the Scriptures this source of energy is identified as the power of God."

For example: The Bible teaches a 'resurrection' for those who have died. Jesus actually did raise someone from the dead. A miracle.

Yet, IF God created mankind in-the-first-place, -- why could he not RE-create them a second time? Understood, the conclusion would be based on the Word 'IF' - - IF God really did create mankind in the first place. Since Christians believe we were created by God, then really anything unexplainable to human sciences, would be just that, unexplainable to HUMAN sciences.

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Catholic AnswerOf course, taking into consideration the caveats above, but, for instance, every medical cure at Fatima must be vetted by medical doctors who must attest that there is no explainable reason for the cure. Furthermore, the cure must be complete and must occur in an inexplicable time frame (an instantaneous, complete cure of some fatal disease, for instance).

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When Our Blessed Lady was appearing to the children at Fatima, she said that she would perform a miracle so that all could believe, and indeed she did, with tens of thousands of people experiencing the "miracle of the sun". It was even reported in the newspapers of the time in Portugal.

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Anyone who is declared a saint by the Church, who is not a martyr, must have a miracle attributed to their name, and, to the extent they can do it, science must approve by saying that they have no way of explaining it.