The Rarity Of Miracles In The Bible

Especially if the universe is billions of years old, it is not antithetical to Christianity for God to have relatively infrequently distorted the laws of physics, which is all that a miracle is.  Multiplying a small number of loaves or turning rivers into blood would be just that: unless the laws of physics permanently changed, a miracle is merely a temporary, abnormal suspension or alteration of laws of physics.  The laws of logic cannot be changed because they are necessary truths, so miracles by nature cannot even slightly affect them.  The laws of logic are what dictates and reveals impossibility, and anything that does not contradict logical axioms is possible, including miracles like those described in the Bible--though possibility alone means nothing except that it is true that something is possible.

The unprovable (thanks to human limitations) age of the universe has a relevance to the nature of miracles, particularly in the context of Christian theism or even something like Islamic theism, because the frequency of miracles in the Bible's accounts of history is something that could be mistaken for philosophical confirmation that Christianity false.  Some non-Christians actually talk as if they could possibly know that a religion is false based on how often or little its texts describe miracles happening, while some Christians think that the Biblical timeline of history is one full of miracles at every turn.  The truth is that the length of time humans have existed for as a species and what the miracle stories focus on mean there is more to this side of the topic than many realize as far as what role miracles have in Christianity goes, whether or not Christianity is even true.

On a world that is less than 11,000 years old, even a series of very overt and intrusive miracles in one region would not be apparent to people anywhere else.  On a world that has existed for billions of years old, even repeated global miracles would only impact the generation witnessing them, and there are very few miracles in Biblical history that would be global in scale (the sun "standing still" at Joshua's command is the rare example that qualifies).  In other words, there is no Biblical confirmation that history, if Christianity is true, is full of miracles at every moment or even every year of its potentially enormous duration.  The concept of miracles would actually be easily misidentified as more important than it is by irrational minds.

Something far from this is what the Bible presents as being the case: miracles are fairly uncommon across the Biblical accounts of history and are not usually meant to so much as prompt thought from everyone in a generation or from every national group across history.  Whether or not the Bible is true, the Bible describes miracles as signs that accompany or validate context-specific goals, like Elijah calling for heavenly fire after Baal's priests fail to summon fire or Jesus resurrecting (though this miracle would have far more extensive, foundational significance than the typical miracle).  The point is never to make everyone in the world immediately reflect on theism, or even a specific kind of theism.

It would be impossible for a being with my limitations to witness even a truly divine miracle and know that the general experience corresponds to something beyond one's own mind, much less know that every aspect of Christian theology and its ramifications are true.  Miracles do not remove epistemological limitations.  Thus, it is irrational for any theist to point to even a genuine miracle as proof of anything except that a strange experience has occurred, and it is irrational for any non-theist to think that a real or perceived miracle is philosophically necessary to confirm God's existence.  One can look to reason and know with absolute certainty that the existence of an uncaused cause is logically provable, and this has nothing to do with any sensory evidence that could be an illusion.