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Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles? | Ian Hutchinson & Robert Lue

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Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles? | Ian Hutchinson & Robert Lue

October 14, 2017
The Veritas Forum
The Veritas Forum

Last Spring, Ian Hutchinson (MIT) and Robert Lue (Harvard) sat down at Harvard’s Science Center with Anne Harrington (Harvard) to discuss miracles. Do they happen? Does scientific thinking undermine belief in them? What does the existence (or non-existence) of miracles mean for the larger discussion on science and faith?

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