God does not arbitrarily manipulate the laws of physics and perform miracles.

Natural laws don't cause anything, they only describe what regularly happens in nature. The four known natural forces can be---and are--overcome every day by intelligent beings. For example, when I throw a ball I am overcoming the force of gravity with the propelling force of my right arm. Now, many miracles can be understood in that sense." Firstly, I would like to respond that you have a slight confusion as to what my view on what scientific laws actually are. Thus you have made a complete straw man and unsuccessfully attempted to beat it down. Gravity follows Newton's second law of motion, which when we overcome it, violate no laws at all. To explain, Newton stated that an object in motion will stay in motion (at the same speed and in the same direction) until it is acted upon by some force. We serve as this other force when we pick up this object! Secondly, laws are not just something that we observe occurring in our universe, they are a large collection of facts determined by experiment into a single statement. Scientific laws are strongly supported by empirical evidence, and are often quoted as fundamental controlling influences rather than descriptions of observed facts. In this argument, I have stated very briefly, that because of our views on space and time (see, the special theory of general relativity) we are led to believe that should these laws ever be violated, then predictions for future observation would become much more difficult. To explain why, somewhere down the line we would find a non sequitur in our search for an explanation on how the universe actually works (see my quote regarding Richard Feynman). Thirdly, you provide a source in favor of the miracles of Jesus which is taken as authority only by a specific group of people (Christians). There has never been a single shred of evidence outside of the anecdotal claims of people possibly thousands of years ago. If for example, God could perform miracles, and we as humans could appease God and persuade him to heal the sick, as Christians claim, then why do we not have faith healers in the hospitals healing cancer patents and restoring amputated limbs? Would that not be of special interest to the public and the scientific community as a whole? The bible could be a myth in attempt to describe what the ancient people saw, however it is not an accurate description of our universe, nor is it a reliable source to predict future events. As Neil DeGrasse Tyson once said, the bible claims a star will fall to the earth and cause our waters to become bitter, those who wrote the bible had no clue what those little pin points in the sky actually were. And lastly, I would like to bring up the fact that they thought the sky could be rolled away like a scroll, leading up to another dimension beyond our physical universe where the kingdom of heaven lies. Fact number one, snakes do not talk! Fact number two, the bible describes an event in which would have destroyed all of (plant and animal) life on the face of the earth, leaving Noah and his family stranded on the water with a bunch of hungry carnivores. Fact number three, there is a spruce tree in Sweden much older than your bible claims. And fact number four, the universe cannot support life without nuclear fusion. And lastly, the same God that will torture people for eternity, for not believing he actually exist and yet has provided us with no reason to believe is not benevolent as the bible openly states. Therefore, the bible is no credible source of information, and I am led to abandon it as an authority.