Two Theses On the Epistemological Status of “Miracles”

1.   Can we understand “miracles” through the lens of standard scientific epistemology?

I think that “miracles” can be explained by science but, and here’s the rub, science can only explain “miracles” in scientific terms.  And by scientific terms I mean that “miracles” can be translated through the scientific disciplines of sociology, psychology, biological, etc.  The science method cannot account for “miracles” outside scientific terms.  

2.   How are we to understand “miracles”?

Not as scientists.  The possibility of “miracles” is not a possibility confined by (a faith in) empirical and rational limits, as is the modern scientific method.  

Rather, the possibility of “miracles” is a possibility founded on the words of the Holy Bible.  The ground on which the possibility of “miracles” stands is revelatory and therefore inexplicable in scientific terms.  

The truth of “miracles” is not a scientific truth and the two kinds of truth should not be conflated.