Embracing the impossible? The fact that every living thing is composed of the same lifeless material that makes up the physical universe shows that life is not a quality of matter. That being the case, the very existence of life becomes a series of miracles. Miracles? That’s a forbidden word, yet modern science, after decades of trying, has failed to offer the world a better explanation. After somehow pulling themselves together, have protein molecules taken charge? At the same time, however, science denies that the miracles reported by eyewitnesses in the Bible could ever occur.