1. Miracles as violations of what you would expect to happen are conceptually unstable
Most religions define miracles as events that nature cannot do. The logic goes:
Miracle = something nature cannot do.
If it happens, it signals God’s intervention.
But Just because something is impossible under known natural law, does not imply it’s caused by a divine creator. It could be a misperception, error, or even a law of nature we don’t yet understand.
Also, a report may say something happened but you may not know exactly what - you might detect a miracle but not know exactly the what, where and when. So lies and errors and a real miracle can contribute to some strange event.
Also, religion is telling God to demarcate nature from supernatural. It is God's right to help natural law do what it normally cannot do. So hens can lay golden eggs maybe.
Miracles assume the authority of human ideas and knowledge over natural law—and that’s inherently arrogant. It puts humans in the position of judging what’s “possible” for all of nature.
2. Religious ideology dictates what counts as a miracle
Selective belief is rife and cherry-picking miracles soon leads to untold harm for the person starts cherry-picking other things too.
Christians may find miracles, e.g., human sacrifice followed by amazing harvests, absurd. But they accept miracles central to their faith (e.g., Joseph Smith's visions, resurrection of Jesus) as valid. This is ideology masquerading as evidence. The claim isn’t that miracles are logically impossible, but that the ones we like count as divine, and the ones we dislike don’t. This is confirmation bias, dressed up as theology.
3. Evidence is shaped by expectation
Evidence for Jesus rising is defined by stories of an empty tomb and post-death appearances. If God had used dreams or invisible touches instead, believers might dismiss it. Religious “evidence” is pre-scripted. Believers are telling God: “Here’s how you should demonstrate your miracle if we are to believe it.” That’s circular: the miracle is only valid if it conforms to pre-existing narrative expectations.
4. Miracles imply a capricious or incompetent God
If God sets up natural law and then starts making a change then God is either changeable or inconsistent. He would be those anyway. But especially when we know that the normal response when a miracle is reported is that people abuse and misuse the report.
A God who behaves without clear reason is not necessarily loving or reliable.
Miracles as nature violations raise ethical and logical issues: why punish or reward people in ways that contradict the order meant for human life? The evidence for John murdering Jane could be miraculously fabricated. This makes miracles not just metaphysically dubious, but morally questionable.
5. Miracles as violations invite absurdity
Most reported miracles contain absurd or highly improbable elements:
Levitation, spaceships, solid ghosts who are not really there at all. These often function more as spectacle than as evidence. Religions must choose which absurdities count as divine. Again, this is arbitrary. This creates a risk: by affirming one miracle, believers tacitly validate the possibility of all miracles, undermining rational standards and encouraging credulity.
6. The “miracle mindset” conflicts with science
Science is about precision and evidence. Miracles, by contrast, are vague, unverifiable, and prone to confirmation bias.
Claiming “it’s God” when science cannot explain something is anti-science, and gives a double standard: normal evidence is required for science but not for miracles.
Miracle-belief therefore validates contradictions: it allows people to accept impossible events as true without scrutiny.
7. Consequences of miracle-belief
Believing miracles may encourage a worldview in which nature is fragile, changeable, or suspect. This undermines trust in natural regularity, which is foundational to life, science, and rational decision-making. Miracle belief is self-reinforcing: affirm one, and others become plausible, which can lead to superstition or irrational action. Affirming a "real"miracle puts your guard down and those who are going to persuade you to accept a tricky one will have an easier job.
Bottom line:
Miracles, by framing nature as violable at divine whim, destabilize reason, ethics, and science. They turn evidence into ideology, leave absurdities unchallenged, and encourage arbitrary beliefs about what is possible. They are not just unconvincing—they actively promote irrational thinking. Affirming your rationality is more important than nonsense like that - have some self-respect.