Lee Strobel, former atheist, journalist, and legal affairs editor for the Chicago Tribune, researched, interviewed experts, and wrote a book on miracles. Strobel commissioned a national scientific survey on miracles that was conducted by Barna Research. This survey found that 67 percent of Americans said that miracles are possible today, with only 15 percent saying miracles are not possible. 38 percent of US adults said they had an experience that they only could explain as being a miracle of God, which calculates to 94,792,000 US adults. Lee Strobel, The Case for Miracles: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for the Supernatural, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2018), 30. A 2004 survey showed that 55 percent of US physicians have observed their patients heal in a way the physicians would consider miraculous. In another survey of 1,100 doctors, three-quarters are convinced that miracles can occur today and about 60 percent of physicians pray for their patients individually. Strobel, The Case for Miracles, 31. Strobel wrote his book to determine whether belief in supernatural occurrences is based on a mistake, misunderstanding, fraud, legend, rumor, wishful thinking, confirmation bias, the placebo effect-or reality. Strobel, The Case for Miracles, 31.
