We just saw that today.
Lightning can travel across entire states . . .
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Consider Francis Collins’ approach. He sees no reason why scientific explanations should exclude the participation of God, and it is the involvement God which makes things a miracle. The fact that natural law explains most of how things came about doesn’t subtract from our awe, gratitude, and feeling of divine attention to our lives. We look at a flower or an infant and still feel it is miraculous even while we understand all the scientific explanations for the biological processes involved. Those are just the details and it is like letting the chemical composition of paints subtract from appreciating a great painting (not that infants or flowers are just a work of art).
What seems to vary somewhat is how seriously we take magical understandings of miraculous events. Some as Mervin described just see these as an exception to the rule and others like myself see no reason for reading magic into events – so the involvement of God has more to do with timing and coincidences. I like to point out that the laws of nature are largely probabilistic, but altering the probability distributions would be an alteration of the law of nature. Thus the miraculous interventions must be the exception rather than the rule.
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