“The very idea of supernatural magic – including miracles – is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning,” so says famed doubter and atheist, Richard Dawkins. Miracles- Are They True? Dawkins personifies all those who have grown up with the scientific method so ingrained, that they can no longer see that anything exists beyond what they can measure and comprehend.  Thus any religious belief is consigned to the trash bin as unprovable and therefore invalid. With kids using iPhones and computers from a very early age, they are exposed not only to the latest in scientific facts, but also to the opinions and nay-sayers of all those who have no room in their lives for the God they think they know about and thus reject. Personally, I think all the mentions of Jesus’ miracles in the New Testament throw modern folks into a tizzy.  Because they deem them impossible or unbelievable and something which they could never accept, they dismiss everything else. They “throw the baby out with the bath water”- toss out the golden nugget of truth without ever discovering it.   Why the Use of Stories and Parables? A large part of the problem is that people don’t understand the way those 1st century writers thought and wrote.  Like for Jesus himself, and teachers, parents, preachers and inspirational speakers of…….