Just to clarify: I'm not trying to convince you that divine intervention is the cause of certain things that have no logical explanation or trap you into admitting that you believe in divine intervention, etc. Just genuinely curious about how you explain things that cannot logically be explained.
Simple: either the thing happened through a mechanism that, though unknown to us, can be discovered and understood and is internally consistent, or we misinterpreted what happened to begin with.
For example, you've never heard of someone being completely cured of a terminal disease?
I’ve heard it many times. But I’ve yet to see a plausible and well documented story of a spontaneous recovery from a terminal illness.
What about the people whose hearts have stopped beating for longer science allows for and survive?
I’ve heard of that too. Most times, mitigating circumstances are involved (e.g. the person whose heart stopped had drowned in ice-cold water) that
can provide an explanation based on well-understood biological mechanisms.
But even in times where a precise mechanism of action is not understood, I don’t think in terms of miracles. I think in terms of “oh, an as of yet not understood mechanism allowed for this out of the ordinary result.”
There are countless other others that defy medical explanations.
Come on. “Countless others that defy medical explanations” is a bit much. I’m betting most such cases, if not all, are anecdotal and those that aren’t don’t
really “defy medical explanations”.
I mean, I’m sure that “parishioner with advanced cancer made a miraculous recovery” sounds amazing on the Church’s weekly newsletter and whips the congregation into a religious frenzy, but I doubt the story includes details about the actual treatment nor are most readers able to evaluate the medical condition on its merits; all they know is that someone made a recovery. At best it’ll say “Doctors had all but given up” or “All doctors could do was ease the pain.”
And, of course, when the poor parishioner doesn’t recover, the newsletter won’t say “miracle failure occurred.” It says “Our parishioner is now home and in the presence of the Lord. He’s no longer is pain but bathed in eternal love” or some such trite bullshit.
Long story short: miracles are bullshit.