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I'd just point out that God only seems capable of miracles that line up with current medical technology.
The day we finally figure out how to regen limbs, the first person who tells me "Well God can heal amputees now!" I will punch in the face.
Or the guy who was buried for like 3 days in Haiti and used his iPhone to keep himself awake, used an app with first aid to treat his wounds and generally used the iPhone to save his life... then he gets out and thanks God for saving his life.
she said that her father was diagnosed with lupus and doctors said that he would live for max 3 months and after 12 years he is still alive. and that some guy could see again after he prayed...
Okay, so her father's lupus did not kill him within 3 months. That could be:
- a simple mis-prognosis
- a remission of the disease, which sometimes just happens
- an exaggeration, mistake and/or lie on her part in providing the anecdote (most likely, in my opinion). Honestly, have you ever heard of a doctor telling a patient "You have X number of days until this condition kills you?" Other than in the movies?
That's just not the way medical professionals provide a prognosis, even if things look pretty grim. If you really go probing, they might give you statistics, but that's about it. Mostly, in my experience, doctors tend to keep your focus (and theirs) on treatment & treatment options, rather than how poor your odds of survival are.
Sometimes blindness also does spontaneously repair itself. The idea that the man prayed and then suddenly went from total blindness to 20/20 vision is ridiculous, and I don't believe it for a second; perhaps someone's vision did return to them, and then they recalled that they had prayed for it the night before (and probably had been praying for it for some time), and so then they (falsely) attributed the return of their sight to the prayer they'd made.
EDIT:
...But, even if something really magical did happen - say that someone's coffee cup suddenly grew a mouth, appeared to become self-aware and starting holding conversations with people - that doesn't prove divine intervention in any case. It means that something unusual is going-on, absolutely, but it's ridiculous to see something you don't understand and then say, "It's a miracle! It's the work of (insert pet deity here)!".
