Magicians, Miracles And The Conservation Law of Matter

We have all heard of the claims of Spiritualists making objects appear from, and disappear into nothingness from the ancient, and even in our present world at traditional festivals and some cinema halls. For instance, coins, toffees suddenly appearing behind someones's ear, egg from a man's anus, live rabbits from an empty hat, changing a walking stick into snake, water into wine, food falling from sky, and so on.

Others include human beings or snakes vomiting money. These and many more claims. There are people claiming to have witness them. They call such "events" miracle, which certainly means a believed God answering the prayer petitions of man.

Yet, whilst Nature is probably self-sufficient, it is certainly lawful. One of the fundamental laws telling us how Nature behaves is the conservation law of Matter. An elucidation of this law should reveal the crux of the claims of "events" called miracle. The conservation law of Matter states that, Matter is neither created nor destroyed. This means in the interactions of Matter, it can only be transformed from one form to another.

Yes, but more importantly, the transformation does not produce anything that is already not part of the transformed substances. Whatever that is produced is just a rearrangement of the already present substances. Read that again. Do your best to extract its meaning as few examples from the everyday world would helps to drum it home for appreciation, if not understanding of its pervasiveness and inviolability.

We all eat. Every food is prepared from its ingredients. When you begin with the ingredients of preparing a particular food, say banku, you end up producing so in whatever quantities that the ingredients can. You cannot set out to prepare jollof rice, therefore mixing all the ingredients on the fire and then end up having fufu or kenkey because you were praying to the believed Creator of the ingredients sold on the market. This is impossible. Note, the substances or ingredients themselves dictate the impossiblity.

As a result, the fervent prayer of the Cook is intrinsically irrelevant to what the food will be finally. Faith in prayer cannot change that. The believed God cannot either. Again, the substances or ingredients themselves dictate the impossibility. Do you really believe that the Cook who sets out to prepare okro soup with its ingredients on fire can start praying to a supposedly believed God and the prepared food would become groundnut soup instead of okro soup?

Let us look at another dramatic example. An uncontrollable blazing fire engulfed an entire house, institutions, markets, student halls, hostel, dormitories and offices. Everything caught up in the inferno reduces to ashses. Yes, into ashes. The ashes are the transformed forms of all materials present in that house, markets, office, and hostels. None of the materials disappeared into nothingness.

They are there but in a different form. With the entire emotional trauma of wailing and intense angush, which these inferno scenarios evoke in us in terms of destructions of human lives and properties, nevertheless there is no violation of the conservation law of Matter as everything reduces into ashes. If these kitchen and inferno examples are clear to you about the inviolability of the conservation of Matter, then examine the "events" called miracles in the light of this law and deduce whether the claims are true or false as well as factual or wishful thinking.

The claimed transformations; changing walking stick into snake, changing water into wine, rabbits from empty hat, food "raining" from sky, coins and toffees appearing suddenly from someones's ear, human beings or snakes vomiting money all certainly through prayer to a believed God involves and are about Matter. Since and once it is about Matter, nothing that is not part of the substance can never come out of the substance. So says Nature through the conservation law.

Therefore, all these claims called miracle are in principle and in practice impossible as the claim of starting with jollof rice ingredients on the fire and ending up preparing banku because of faith in prayer to a believed God. In that regard, the witnesses in our modern world were explicitly deceived, or implicitly tricked into believing so or simply promoters of superstition as typical of the ancient child.

The substratum that seemingly give credence to these "events" called miracle are the masquerading deceptions and tricks taken as laws of Nature to the amazement of, and then as manifestation and justification of the observer's (believer's) faith. Yet,faith never dictates to Nature.

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