But can the modern man accept a 'miracle' such as the resurrection? The answer is a surprising one. The resurrection has to be accepted by us just because we are modern men-men living in the Einsteinian-relativistic age. For us, unlike people of the Newtonian epoch, the universe is no longer a tight, safe, predictable playing field in which we know all the rules. Since Einstein, no modern has had the right to rule out the possibility of events because of prior knowledge of 'natural law.' The only way we can know whether an event can occur is to see whether in fact it has occurred. The problem of 'miracles,' then, must be solved in the realm of historical investigation, not in the realm of philosophical speculation. And note that an historian, in facing an alleged 'miracle,' is really facing nothing new. All historical events are unique, and the test of their facticity can be only the accepted documentary approach that we have followed here.
- John Warwick Montgomery, History, Law, and Christianity (NRP Books, 2014), pg. 41, 42
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