[MissAmericanPie]

I'm talking about deliberately restricting their speculations in only one direction, the other direction, being off limits.

[Wonder Warthog]

"I'm talking about deliberately restricting their speculations in only one direction, the other direction, being off limits."

But those aren't "scientists", they are simply the newest category in "the oldest profession".

[js1138]

Scientist seldom speculate in the direction of supernatural causes because the fundamental hypothesis of science is that the laws of nature are constant over time. The search for explanations in science is the search for rules that are consistent over time.

Asking a scientist to assume, as a starting point, that an event is the result of a miracle, is simply not going to happen. It isn't the way science works; it isn't what science does.

This doesn't mean that there aren't miracles, and it doesn't mean that all scientists disbelieve in miracles. It simply means that the definition of science is the search for naturalistic explanations.