I disbelieve in miracles because I disbelieve in a divine, I disbelieve in a divine because http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/133660?page=2&.

Miracles and "magic" are words we use when we haven't yet understood how a particular experience can be reconciled with our current model of nature. To call something a "miracle" and say it must have been done by a divine agency just because you currently don't understand how it could be a natural effect is basically giving up on trying to find a natural cause. And since you'll never know simply based on current lack of knowledge whether you might one day discover a naturalistic explanation (if there is a way to know for certain, it would be news to me), it stands to reason that it is always inappropriate to call anything a true divine miracle.

Yes. Though I'd qualify Aquinas on the matter. There are four types of miracles: 1) a mundane but totally supernatural "miracle": one where God or some other agent initiates and guides any string of causation to achieve a result, pursuant to the agent's vision and will. There is nothing "special" about this in the human realm: men do it all the time - even every time a man picks up something on the floor and puts it on the shelf or in the closet. That such is a supernatural event I contend on the simple grounds that they don't happen on their own. Something wholly immaterial and transcendent is the originator, namely intelligence-will-vision. That these miracles (or perhaps "supernaturally initiated effects" is a better term) occur is self-evident. 2) a miracle of timing: an improbable - especially a grossly improbable - natural event that occurs at just the right moment to make a Divine point. That these miracles have occurred is a fact of history. That unbelievers insist on designating them merely fortuitous coincidences merely emphasizes the fact that they occur. 3) a miracle of the exercise of authority: this is where God or one of His agents invokes divine authority to command demons to cease their activity and depart. Though rare, true possessions and exorcisms are real. 4) a miracle of interruption/intervention: an act presumably possible for God alone, where the normal order of things (the way and pattern in which God almost always orchestrates events - misguidedly called "natural processes" - is completely altered or suspended, such as in the case of a resurrection. If one believes in God, the question of whether or not a miracle do this kind is possible or not becomes not a question of COULD God do it (of course He could: He's God) but WOULD He do it. Not being a Deist, I see nothing inconsistent with God intervening in a world where billions of free agents routinely make a mess of things.