SCIENCE;
MIRACLES: BELIEF IN

I receive a lot of magazines, most of which I dutifully and joyously never read. I looked at one recently after I came home in the evening, and it had a question and answer department in it.

One question was: “Dear Doctor So and So: What about the whale swallowing Jonah? Do you believe that?”

And the good doctor replied: “Yes, I believe it. Science proves that there are whales big enough to swallow men.”

I folded the magazine, and laid it down, for that man had come up to bat, but he had struck out beautifully.

For I believe that Jonah was swallowed by a whale, not because a scientist has crawled in and measured a whale’s belly, and come out and said, “Yes, God can do that.”

If God said that Jonah was swallowed by a whale, then the whale swallowed Jonah, and we do not need a scientist to measure the gullet of the whale.…

Whenever I find men running to science to find support for the Bible, I know they are rationalists and not true believers!

Grant me God and miracles take care of themselves.

Jeremiah 32:17–27; Jonah 1:17; Matthew 19:26

The Tozer Pulpit, Volume 1, Book 1, 33, 34.