miracles never trouble a realist. It’s not miracles that may succeed in persuading a realist to believe. A genuine realist, if he’s a nonbeliever, always finds in himself the strength and ability not to believe in a miracle, and if the miracle stands before him as an indisputable fact, then he would sooner disbelieve his feelings than admit the fact. And if he does admit the fact, then he does so as a fact of nature, one that was unknown to him before.
