Miracle on the Hudson
I was watching the coverage of the rescue on the news. It was all there, right in front of me, the flotation devices, the life rafts, the rescue boats, the people throwing life preservers, the ambulances, the paramedics, the stretchers… I didn’t see a single thing that required a supernatural explanation.
Some reports focus on the landing rather than the rescue, and dispense the factoid that “no one ever successfully ditched a plane before.” Well, not exactly. Wikipedia lists some emergency water landings with 100% survival rates. Let’s give credit where credit is due. God was not Sullenberger’s copilot. The copilot was a man named Skiles. Invoking supernatural assistance denies Sullenberger and Skiles full credit for their outstanding achievement.
On the other hand, for geese to knock out both engines at exactly the same time… that sounds pretty unlikely. Too unlikely to be the result of blind chance. I think it’s evidence of Design. Yeah, sure, blame it on the geese. But Who created geese? And why did He have to make them such big honking birds? I’m not about to second-guess Infinite Wisdom. I can only trust that if a miracle knocked that plane out of the sky, there was a good reason for it.
