The Meaning of 'miracle' - Part 1

I just finished reading Richard Swinburne's chapter "Arguments from History and Miracles", Chapter 12 in The Existence of God (2nd ed., 2004), about the same time Taner Edis did his post "Natural miracles?" (http://secularoutpost.infidels.org/20..., this seems like a good time to revisit the topic of 'miracles'.Back in 2008, I did a series of posts on the definition of