Together with the more progressive elements in other denominations, Unitarians have, for the most part, advanced beyond the conception of 'miracle' as something occurring in violation of natural law, and give to the word a new connotation less at variance both with Scripture and with the conclusions of modern science. Besides the opinion that all the miracles recorded in the Bible are capable of explanation in accordance with known laws, the view is sometimes taken that these events are to be ascribed to the working of unknown laws which may or may not be hereafter discovered. In any case, conservative Unitarian theologians, agreeing in this with many not otherwise of their way of thinking, have for the most part ceased to look on the gospel miracles as any evidence of the truth of Christianity, which they hold to instead be self-evidencing. Most Unitarians would be willing to be represented upon this point by a distinguished "Orthodox" scholar of Great Britain, who says, "If the progress of science remove from the category of miracles events previously classified as such, it merely fulfills its proper function in so doing."