A miracle is something that is currently inexplicable by the laws of nature: statues crying blood; the resurrection of the dead; turning water into wine; etc.. Suppose I can accurately guess the lottery each weekend (I can't), and do so each weekend for a year. In a way, that seems a lot more impressive than the example miracles. Perhaps someone was simply mistaken about it being blood/water/a corpse. Suppose an improbable, but not impossible, event keeps happening. Can we put it down to divine intervention or is it just some supernatural thing that we don't yet have the best explanation for?
I'm guessing people have talked about the difference between miracles and the paranormal. What do they say? Why wouldn't performing baffling and improbable feats at will be any kind of sign of God's intervention? And does the statistical nature of many laws mean that they are immune to the concept of "miracle"? Moreover, if all laws are ceteris paribus, and I think some people claim that, might divine intervention be ruled out already
Hüttemann and Reutlinger (2013), Kowalenko (2014), Reutlinger (2014), Roberts (2014) and Strevens (2014) have recently explored a statistical approach to cp-laws, according to which cp-law statements are statistical claims