This is what happens when you believe in an historical religion - you are forever being put on the defensive because if Jesus Christ is not real then your religion is false. So your metaphysical beliefs are teathered to the physical proof.

Unfortunately, science gets in the way. Make a graph of scientific progress from say 3000 BC until the present time. You will see some plateaus and maybe even a dip or two, but for the most part, there is a steady increase in scientific knowledge with a marked increase in the rate of positive rise in the last one hundred years or so.

Now overlay on that graph the occurance of miracles on earth. What do you see? the same curve but inverse. The more we know about science, the less we hear about miracles.

That is not a coincidence.