Your conclusions don't hold. We know EXACTLY how books are produced. We have plenty of books available for which we can objectively produce an actual living, breathing author. Not so with the universe. You are attempting an apples to oranges comparison.
Ok, fair enough. Let's do another thought experiment.
Do you have such an object?
This question is an indication you don’t want to engage in the line of reasoning, perhaps because you don’t like the implication of it. Just because I don’t have that object doesn’t mean you can’t imagine it. I can change the scenario to a remote tribe on an island with no contact with the outside world, and what they discover is a cell phone that has somehow appeared on their shores. For that tribe, it is the only phone that exists, and they have no idea how it was created. From their perspective, would the phone itself be empirical evidence that a phone creator exists?
Designoid objects look designed, so much so that some people- probably, alas, most people - think that they are designed. -Richard Dawkins
He will do that. We know He can.
Oh, I'm willing to engage. It's just that I don't design in the universe, much less a designer. If we were to find an "alien artifact" it would appear to be evidence of extraterrestrials. But it would have to be closely examined and verified... with other possibilities being ruled out over the course of analysis. Case in point, I watched a documentary about the yeti a while back. One piece of evidence that was examined was this conical "scalp" supposedly from a yeti. It was pretty old and kept at a monastery in Nepal. At first glance it did look intriguing... but, the researchers were able to extract a tissue sample and examine it for DNA. Turns out the "yeti scalp" was from a goat.
And still no objective evidence.
Maybe Yetis are actually giant hornless bipedal goats.....
Got any objective evidence for that assessment?
I don't think so. Its you who have no objective evidence,,, Its why you "object" so much. You have been left out.
Those would all be intriguing events, especially the parting of a sea. But I would have to witness them FIRSTHAND... not read or hear about them. And the medical ones (recovery from illness / resurrection) would have to be medically investigated (sometimes illness go into remission. The "resurrected" person would have to be verified as dead)
Whether some find excuses to reject those events even if witnessed is a different issue as to whether God instantiates enough of these events to build a ground swell of contemporary miracle witnessing that by weight would be undeniable. God is not even attempting to influence anybody by His silence and folded arms in contemporary events. There is a lot of low hanging fruit in human suffering and advancement He could play in today that would make it much harder for us to deny His presence, but as it is we rely on the dubious intentions and false agendas of past religious narratives. We see those play out today as well and need to be careful of them.
No. Just comparing the era of miracles explicitly attributed to God's direct intervention to this era.
You are going to miss out on a lot in life if you must be there to see it to believe it.
God tells us why... If you ever studied the Bible in a regenerate state? You just might begin to understand why.
That's the portion I addressed with the "but as it is we rely on the dubious intentions and false agendas of past religious narratives. We see those play out today as well and need to be careful of them."
Of course the intent of a miracle is to do something other than instill faith. God instills faith without miracles every day, but we hear personal miracles change the faithless into the faithful all the time. It doesn't matter what the intent of a miracle is. It does not negate the need for explicit miracles in this day and age, miracles that could change the faithless into the faithful.
You don't understand I am not asking for evil to go away. I am asking for God's dispensation against it where appropriate, as he saw fit in the age of miracles, for the sake of His creation here and now.
Are all news channels fake news?
No, my argument goes like, "Look out for the anatomy of lies in all things recorded past or present." One such anatomy is supernatural events that happened with recorded regularity before, suddenly stop happening when those that recorded it are gone.
You're off on a tangent ..... wiggle room to your left.