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Yes, miracles include not only healing, but also levitating, walking on water, controlling the weather, creating signs in the sky (meaning signs in the sun, moon, and stars), prophecy and other forms of infused knowledge, bilocation, raising a dead person to life --- any event in the external world (not just in the mind, imagination, or dreams) brought about by God, operating without the use of means discernable by the senses or by the instruments of scientific investigation, as evidence of the divine commission of a religious teacher and the truth of his message.

I realize this is a pretty expansive definition, and could open up a world of controversy.

Even more controversial is that some of that stuff can be achieved by evil supernatural entities, a.k.a. demons. I think all such things are very rare. I have never seen any of it first-hand.

There are some people, known to me personally as intelligent, educated, honest and sensible people, who have seen these things first hand. Both the divine and the demonic. They were not the sort of people who are gullible, naive, attention- or profit-seekers, or unacquainted with the normal rules of evidence. They could still, of course, be mistaken.

Personally, I hope to stay clear of it, since I'm as susceptible to deception or delusion as anybody. Quite frankly, I would be the first to doubt my own judgment in the matter.