This Hanukkah, I celebrate my own personal "miracle" -- the simple freedom to be with my wife and children.
Yes, I know. No such thing as miracles, right? Well, I am a believer in science, too, but I choose to believe in miracles, as well.
I know there are rational, prosaic explanations for the "miracle" of my children and my ability to be with them, but I choose to turn on the portion of my brain that calls it a miracle.
What's that Arthur C. Clarke quote? "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Perhaps the Maccabeans were nanoscientists who discovered how to optimize each molecule of oil to make the menorah burn for eight days, rather than one? Miracle? Science? Does it matter? We make our own metaphors, choose our own symbols.
Happy Hanukkah.
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