Another thread had a curious title.
Independently REPEATABLE evidence of miracles. Which is a logical contradiction in the sense that by definition researchers cannot repeat the supernatural, otherwise it wouldn’t be supernatural.
So all that can be done is
1/ to identify evidence of the unexplained.
2/ to confirm it is inexplicable, by breaking a fundamental paradigm of science as it is known
( eg prophecy as a simple example because of time arrow, consciousness outside the brain )
3/ that there is no credible means of faking the evidence.
The only repeat possible is reassessment of evidence, not repeat the event.
But 1-3 deal only with defining something as supernatural, not a miracle which ascribes a cause.
Since God is not in the model of science , nor can science proclaim Him as a verdict, a limitation of science, not God.
So all we can do is is state
4/ it occurs in the theistic context
And
5/ the church adds other conditions too
Reality is there is a lot of such evidence.
Take miracle healings at Lourdes.
The lame walk, the blind see.
The process is massive to declare it so, from a large medical panel any qualified medic can join, most are not religious. They declare inexplicable , not just unexplained. ( Lourdes medical commission do that part )
The second declaration is by the church 4/ 5/ which is just as stringent. Many healings declared supernatural by medics, don’t pass the churches criteria as miracle. .
So what is left?
Take this. A pelvic cancer before cancers were in anyway curable had destroyed all the pelvic bone to a leg bone connected only by small amounts of soft tissue.
Journey to Lourdes healing waters.
Bone reappeared albeit a shorter leg. Pain disappeared. Cancer gone.
Appeared in serious medical journals.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6027009/pdf/10.1179_0024363913Z.00000000015.pdf
A medical doctor Heads up the commission for typically 10 years a time.
A couple have written books.
