Two things.
First, here's what faith looks like:
The Bible tells me to pray, so I pray. The Bible tells me that supplication should be part of my prayers, so I ask God to help me with my circumstances. The Bible tells me that God performs miracles, based on God's own will, His timing, His reasons. So I pray for miracles. When I see miracles, I thank God. When I don't see miracles I thank God. If I'm doing it right, my thankfulness to God is no different when I see miracles than when I don't see miracles. If I pray for a miracle to save my dying father, and my father lives against all odds, I praise God. If I pray but my father still dies, I still praise God.
What I read a lot in this thread is not faith, but religiosity: A highly unlikely event happens, and it happens to be related to a church, and it happens to have a positive outcome, and I see a miracle. But wait, not only do I see a miracle, I demand that you see a miracle, too. But hold on, I don't just demand that you see a miracle. If you don't see a miracle, that tells me a lot about you. You must not believe in God. As a matter of fact, your failure to see the miracle that I see tells me that you don't just disbelieve God, you have a detailed agenda to undermine God and all His people. As a matter of fact... it goes on and on, and some time along in there we must assume that the religious person prayed to God and told Him that he saw a miracle and that he appreciates it.
We believe in a God who created everything out of nothing. He created all the physical laws, even time itself. So in His world, where He lives, everything would appear to us as impossible. In fact, to us, God's ordinary, predictable, everyday creation is way more awesome than miracles. I'm looking at the vastness of the universe, from the unimaginably tiny to the unimaginably huge, the symphony of the laws of nature, the complexity of the simplest of beauties, people, everything. It just blows my mind. But if I see a little glitch in all that, a miracle, it's more like, ok, that's what I would expect from God. Not all this wondrous order and predictability.
Second thing, God gives me a brain and He expects me to use it. And so I can comprehend very large numbers and statistics, and I know that the universe is not made out of blacks and whites, it is made out of probabilities. And I know that given enough events, I would be surprised not to see highly unlikely events happen.
Therefore, for a great many highly unlikely events, I can't really tell you whether it was a miracle or just the expected rare occurrence of the highly unlikely. And it doesn't really matter to anyone but me and God, anyway.
God's relationship to His people is personal. I'll try and discern miracles from expected rare occurrences, and the Holy Spirit will guide me in this discernment. But in the end it really doesn't matter. It's either God's astonishingly amazing creation firing off an extraordinarily rare event, or it's God bending his own laws to make a miracle. Either way I just praise God.
I don't understand what the big brouhaha's about.
you seriously have never heard of supposed miracles being disproven? How about the Shroud of Torin (probably spelled that wrong), which was thought to have an impossible to explain image of the Virgin Mary in the cloth in such as way that would have been impossible for how old it was? Turns out the shroud isn't near as old as claimed, after scientists were finally allowed to test the fibers and date them. 
