How do you observe for yourself an iceberg calving or ninety-seven million other objective events reported by scientists? (Maggie was a scientist, please recall.) You don’t. You trust the honest accounts recorded.
You’re playing the theodicy card again, I see. Sorry, but it doesn’t trump nor negate other realities.
And speaking of statistics (and ingenuousness* elsewhere), winning five lotteries in a day in the order that the tickets were bought doesn’t give you a clue that something was rigged. Not just one-off coincidences, but whole sets and series of otherwise discrete and disparate events, connected only by the mutual meaning infused. And not just one series, but multiple, and not just one person’s. Do you remember George Müller? I can post links to him again. There was Rich Stearns, of course, and my nephrectomy account (btw, I did not pray to have my cancer cured). I would be interested to see if you could provide comparable sets of concatenated series of events that were first person accounts and likewise recent.
*Call it gullible, if you like, but the antonym is disingenuous. I would prefer the former label for myself.