The Virgin Birth

As to the miracle of the virgin birth, the miracle is really in the conception of the Holy Spirit. A virgin could give birth today if she were artificially inseminated. And maybe this is a clue as to how the miracle occured. Again I view miracles as did C. S. Lewis, not as violations of natural law but rather as the application of various natural laws in unanticipated ways. If John Wesley could be transported to our time, he might think at first that he was seeing miracles of angels or of demons as he encountered our technology. Perhaps in her conversation with the angel Gabriel Mary encountered a creature with some very advanced learning in reproductive endocrinology. This science fiction may be a clue as to the nature of all miracles. Angels may be cloaked creatures sent by God or maybe God does some of these technological feats directly. Interstingly the word technology means literally "art word".
Having established the possiblity of the virgin birth as a miracle that coheres with natural law, I must also speak a cautionary word or two. First even though the virgin birth makes it into the creed, we are not obligated to interpret it literally. We can still affirm its meaning to be virtually synonomous with the doctrine of the incarnation. The virgin birth shows up only in 2 gospels and nowhere else in the NT. Legendary stories surely make it into the Bible, the clearest example being the story of the global flood, which is demonstrably a myth based on tales of local floods. There is no way to either deny or affirm the factuality of the virgin birth. Furthermore, the virgin birth could be interpreted in an heretical fashion to mean that Jesus was half God and half human. To deny the virgin birth as a fact is not to deny the incarnation. What makes Jesus divine is not the absense of Joseph's sperm but rather the kenosis of the eternal Word of God.