Miracles are a name that the religious give to coincidental events with, as yet, no natural explanation. As our knowledge of ourselves and our world grows, the number of ‘miracles’ experienced decreases. There was a time when recovering from a cold would be taken as a miracle. If I pray each day for rain, should I count it a miracle when it eventually does? If so, how about the days when it doesn’t rain? If god gets the credit for fulfilling my prayers, then who gets the blame when they go unmet? Believers will respond that god won’t always do what we want, when we want it done. In other words god gets full credit for everything deemed ‘good’ and bears no responsibility for anything deemed ‘not good’. There are people who see themselves like that too. They are arrogant, defensive and they paint their world the way it suits them. Churches and other religious buildings are full of people like that.