Miracles Should be Investigated to Improve Upon Them

Now, it might be true that astrology is right. It might be true that if you go to the dentist on the day that Mars is at right angles to Venus, that it is better than if you go on a different day. It might be true that you can be cured by the miracle of Lourdes. But if it is true it ought to be investigated. Why? To improve it. If it is true then maybe we can find out if the stars do influence life; that we could make the system more powerful by investigating statistically, scientifically judging the evidence objectively, more carefully. If the healing process works at Lourdes, the question is how far from the site of the miracle can the person, who is ill, stand? ... Or is it possible,as it is with the saints which have recently been created in the United States--there is a saint who cured leukemia apparently indirectly--that ribbons that are touched to the sheet of a the sick person (the ribbon having previously touched some relic of the saint) increase the cure of leukemia--the question is, is tit gradually being diluted? You may laugh, but if you believe in the truth of the healing, then you are responsible to investigate it, to improve its efficiency and to make ti satisfactory instead of cheating.

If there are miracles, then we should investigate them in order to figure out how to make them better, in order to figure out how to best take advantage of them.