PhysicsGirl:

Now it's possible that there is a "super"natural being who effects the universe so seldomly that our signal is buried in the noise.

I really don't know if there is a being that is "up there" randomly choosing to help or deny help to us lowly humans. But there are things that can not be explained by science. I have heard that we just haven't found a way to measure (prove) it yet and the knowledge will come to us eventually. That sounds an awful lot like faith.

PhysicsGirl:

Things can be coincidental even if they're fairly rare. Let's say that there is a 1/1,000,000 chance of a person recovering from a particular disease. If 1,000,000 people all have the disease, one of them will be cured. He will regard it as a miracle ... but any of the 1,000,000 who recover will fill the same way.

You can't say there are coincidences and still be 100% all about science. It has to be measurable or it is unknown. Is unknown a new scientific principle? If it is 1/1,000,000 probability and 10/1,000,000 actually survive, is the science wrong or is it another unknown?

I'm a numbers person, I understand and rely on probability. I "get" all of this. But there is no logical way for anyone to stand on their science soapbox and legitimately say that it's all science and there is nothing else. Measured, proven, studied, researched; sometimes it's just words and nothing else.