I believe we must always remember the contingency of natural laws.
As a theist, I believe such laws are human descriptions of God's typical
method of upholding and sustaining the universe. A miracle would be an
"atypical" or "unprecedented" method of upholding and sustaining the
universe. Of course, this is speaking from a human descriptive
perspective. In either case, God's sustaining providence is active.
Sometimes God reveals "why" He has operated in an unprecedented way, but
we must allow that sometimes God may will to withhold that information.
Since all is contingent on His will, who are we to second-guess what
He does and does not explain?
If we adopt this perspective, the notion of physical laws as
"inviolable," or of miracles as "violations" of such laws evaporates.
Comments?
Dennis Durst