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| Source: humboldt-foundation.de |
That “miracles” are not real is, I think, a secular
assumption that many of Tope Folarin’s readers will share. Some of us might say
that we believe in miracles, and we might enjoy indulging in the fantasy of
divine intervention, or biblical stories that describe Jesus’ ability to turn
water into wine, or a few loaves and fishes into many loaves and fishes. But to
turn one thing into another thing is the provenance of medieval alchemy, and we
are moderns. We might say we believe in angels, but we tend to put the lives of
our loved ones in the hands of doctors, instead of prayer. We believe in
science.
