"Suppose I put $1,000 tonight in my hotel room in Cambridge and I put $1,000 in tomorrow night. One plus one equals two; that’s $2,000. On the third day, I opened the drawer and I find $500. Now, what do I say? Do I say the laws of arithmetic have been broken? Or the laws of the United States have been broken? Well, you obviously got the point. But see how important it is? First of all, you realize that a law of nature does not mean the same thing as a law of a country. Secondly, when you only find $500 in the drawer, how do you know the laws of the United States have been broken? It’s because you know the laws of arithmetic. The laws of arithmetic have not been broken. What those laws tell you is that a thief has put his hand into the drawer and removed your cash. That is, something has come in from outside the system because it wasn’t a closed system. This is crucial. You see, as a scientist, I believe in the laws of nature. Indeed, God, who is responsible for them, created an orderly universe; otherwise, as I said before, we’d never recognize an exception. But God is not a prisoner of the laws of nature. They’re not like the laws of the United States. God, who set the regularities there, can himself feed a new event into the system from outside. Science cannot stop Him from doing that. What Christians are claiming about the resurrection of Jesus is not that he rose by some natural processes; that would violate the laws of nature. No. Christians claim that Jesus rose because God injected enormous power and energy from outside the system. Now, unless you have evidence that the system is totally closed, you cannot argue against the possibility of miracles." (Oxford professor John Lennox)
"John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, Fellow in Mathematics and the Philosophy of Science, and Pastoral Advisor at Green Templeton College, Oxford. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University and at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and is a Senior Fellow of the Trinity Forum. In addition, he teaches for the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme at the Executive Education Centre, Said Business School, Oxford University."
