DOES DIVINE INTERVENTION OCCUR, AND IS THERE A PHYSICAL MODEL FOR SUCH INTERVENTION?

Miracles / the Power of Prayer

1. The Catechism: see 548-549, for miracles as a sign of Christ's Divinity; and also #156,434,515,547,1335. In the Greek, the term “miracle” read as “dynameis”, “works of power”.

2. CS Lewis—the difference between “Natural” and “Supernatural” (Miracles).

3. 
   The Shroud of Turin. See Shroud of Turin Website

4. Lourdes:

• Alexis Carrel;

• The Lourdes Medical Bureau—the process for verifying that a cure is a miracle

5. Power of Prayer

• Statistical experiments studying the power of prayer, an overview

• A statistical study on the effect of remote, retroactive intercessory prayer by Israeli scientists

• A negative result

• Are people who pray healthier?

6. Near Death Experiences (NDE)

How might Divine Intervention occur?

Chaos...Top down, holistic

Quantum Mechanics...Bell’s Theorem and a “Veiled Reality” --Schrodinger's Cat and the Many-Worlds Theory.