Been thinking about degrees of unfalsifiability in supernatural explanations for miracles as we increase the number and diversity of supernatural agents.

If I show you a globally diverse set of miracles and your answer is “God did it,” that’s hard to falsify, but you do leave yourself open to hard questions about God’s objectives if the miracles seem to have contradictory consequences.

So you say, “God did some, the baddies (demons, say) did others,” and now we have room for spectacular events to have contradictory consequences. But we still only have two basic sides, good and evil.

Finally we can go fully shamanic and say there is a rich spirit world, that there are countless spirits with varying powers and preferences, benevolence and malevolence.

If you’re a Christian, say, how do you prevent that last position from absorbing your miracles? Pretty much any miracle I can think of can be then explained through intentions like mischievousness, protecting a liked human from embarrassment, general benevolence, etc. And limited capabilities can answer a whole lot of “well, why didn’t they…?”