Math and Science Made Me Believe in Miracles More

Events can only be scientifically confirmed when they're a part of a controlled, consistent environment.  Is real life outside of a laboratory ALWAYS controlled and consistent, without exception, as the philosophy of determinism insists?  Impossible to prove, but I would say the odds are not good.  Reality has no obligation to fit inside of the small box of required criteria to always make sense to our nature-created brains.

After studying a bit of the natural sciences over the years, particularly mathematics, I've come to discover that rare, uncontrolled events simply have no part in a scientific experiment.  It's not that they can't possibly exist so much as they can't possibly be detected through the scientific method.  These kinds of events cannot be verified scientifically ever, whether they have the ability to exist or not.

In the admittedly stupid movie titled, "A Talking Cat!?!" the feline protagonist Duffy attempts to help a few mentally lost people with some of their life problems.  He talks to each of them separately, but explains he can only talk to them once, never really giving us a satisfactory explanation of why this is.  Now if a situation like this ACTUALLY happened outside of an imaginary story, the only evidence we'd ever have of it is eyewitness testimony that's not worth believing.  No one can control when Duffy chooses to talk.  For all we know he never spoke to anybody else other than these few dimwits.

So it does help to know the potential limitations of the scientific method as well as its incredible strengths.  It's clearly the best tool we have for understanding the physical aspects of reality, but that alone isn't enough to make it infallible.  Weird and rare events that happen to only a few unreliable people can still potentially pop up without the scientific method ever acknowledging their reality.  Only a deterministic philosophy, which encompasses FAR too much to be proven by empirical methods, places a limit on such possibilities.  

But even if eyewitnesses claim such events occurred, I think I'll be like Arthur C. Clarke and remain skeptical of such claims.