 The miracle is an event not explicable by natural or scientific laws. Such an event may be attributed to a supernatural being especially a deity-magic, a miracle worker, a saint, or a religious leader. Informally, the word miracle is often used to care-operize any beneficial event that is statistically unlikely but not contrary to the laws of nature, such as surviving a natural disaster, or simply a wonderful occurrence, regardless of a likelihood, such as a birth. Other such miracles might be, survival of an illness diagnosed as terminal, escaping a life-threatening situation or beating the odds. Some coincidences may be seen as miracles. A true miracle would, by definition, be a non-natural phenomenon, leading many rational and scientific thinkers to dismiss them as physically impossible that is, requiring violation of established laws of physics within their domain of validity or impossible to confirm by their nature because all possible physical mechanisms can never be ruled out. The former position is expressed for instance by Thomas Jefferson and the latter by David Hume. Theologians typically say that, with divine providence, God regularly works through nature yet, as a creator, is free to work without, above, or against it as well. The word miracle is usually used to describe any beneficial event that is physically impossible or impossible to confirm by nature. The Wayne Grutum defines miracle as a less common kind of God's activity in which he arouses people's awe and wonder and bears witness to himself. Theistic perspective of God's relation to the world defines miracle as a direct intervention of God into the world.