Reply #1: An 18 inch snowfall here 2 years ago was an extraordinary event [View All]

[Warpy]

but hardly a miracle. It did nicely end our 10 year drought, though.

I have seen the occasional miracle in health care, people who insisted on getting better and walking out of the hospital when they should have been dead meat within 24 hours of admission. I also saw healthy people walk in and get carried out on a morgue gurney 24 hours later, no rhyme or reason there, either.

The problem with miracles or even extraordinary events is that we can neither control them nor count on them. They are flukes that happen when they happen, prayers or no prayers, scientific method or no scientific method.

I'd be more inclined to describe a miracle as a fluke with a positive outcome.