A Miracle by Definition

IMO, a miracle is something which is against the odds like winning Powerball, but also something with exceptional or unusual circumstances. For example if you won Powerball with a ticket that you found in the gutter, that would be a miracle. If the doctor can explain why there is suddenly no cancer, then it is just an occurance of a very improbable event. If there is no evidence as in the cancer just disappears and nothing can be found which may indicate why, then theres something more to it. Well there is ALWAYS the possibility of something happening or not happening. If i keep rolling a dice for the rest of my life i may never see a six. I may only ever see sixes. So according to the laws of probability, theres still a possibility everything could happen eventually. Probable or inprobable? well i think theres an infinite number of situations and variables to be able to ever guess.
I suppose it depends on your view on time... Is it infinite?Edited by VerifyMe, : No reason given.

Upon reflection I agree with most of your post, but to answer your question Going by my definition (which after reading your post, I can admit the flaws), the fact that a situation can be explained does not change the probability, but to me eliminates the exceptional circumstances. If the doctor said “X caused Y to change so we could treat the cancer with Z”, as apposed to “ Well we treated the cancer with Z and it suddenly disappeared”, the the former seems a lot less miraculous. My statement “I suppose it depends on your view on time... Is it infinite?” was in response to this from Phat: The probability of something happening depends on the number of trials an event has had. If a dice was thrown every minute for the rest of time if it was infinite, a six is infinitely more likely to occur eventually than if time was finite, as there would be a limited number of rolls and always the possibility of a six not being rolled in that finite time.So if you believe time goes on forever, the chances of everything in life being bound to happen are infinitely greater than if time was finite, and there was only a number of finite situations.

I agree completely. A lack of understanding does not prove the existance of god, but it does mean people are more likely to name it a miracle because they don't understand it. Which is I believe why the many "miracles" throughout history were merely a fill in the blanks with Goddidit reasoning.

Exaclty, which is why i now see the flaws of my definition. I merely used that definition to answer one of your previous questions because the context of that question related to that definition. This is true.