Is the belief that the laws of physics were/can be suspended by a supernatural force...

[enki23]

49. Practically: yes. "Supernatural" anything is a rejection of science. Hume covered that.

Science is the measurement and prediction of the universe's behavior. By their very nature, we can't measure or predict miracles. For any given sort of event, if you can measure it or predict it, it isn't a miracle. Back to Hume: "No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish...."

If something seems to happen that seems to contradict our models of the universe, we have to decide whether we were wrong about either the event or the model, or whether the miraculous actually happened. We know for a certainty that we can, and often are wrong. We don't know miraculous can happen at all.

Another way to put it: You'd need to have an estimate of the base-rates of miracles to establish the likelihood of a particular event being a miracle rather than a mistake. We need to establish many particular events as being miracles rather than mistakes to get an estimate of the base-rates for miracles. This is an obvious circle. This is impossible.

The impossibility comes about because of the definition of miracle. It assumes that the universe, at least sometimes, operates by the complicated logic of the brain of an organism, rather than the comparatively simple logic of physics. To assume that actual miracles are possible is to assume that some portion (for an omnipotent god, the entirety) of the universe is ultimately unknowable. Or at least, very difficult, until we find a way to study and predict the behavior of gods. Sometimes we try to do exactly that. One thing that we've established is that the prayers of Christians do not observably affect the behavior of any miracle-makers when the prayers are being carefully observed.