Reply #29: How do you know it wasn't a miracle?

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Do all miracles have to be supernatural intervention obvious to the entire world, or can they be smaller interventions obvious only to an individual? Can't God work behind the scenes, sparking an idea in an engineers mind that leads to a rescue, or delaying the scrapping of critical hardware so that it was available for the rescue?

I tend to think that this life is a test of faith. An obvious modern miracle would provide conclusive proof of God's existence and maybe of the truth of a specific theology, and then faith is not required.