Biblio-historicists often consider the miracles of Jesus to be tall tales because they don't happen routinely today. See this passage from "Survival of the Sickest":
It's hard to underestimate the chilling effect conventional wisdom can have on the scientific community. Geologists [before the 1950s] believed the present was the key to the past - if this is the way the climate behaves today, that's the way it behaved yesterday. That philosophy is called uniformitarianism and, as the physicist Spencer Weart points out in his 2003 book The Discovery of Global Warming, it was the guiding principle among scientists of the time:Through most of the 20th century, the uniformitarian principle was cherished by geologists as the very foundation of their science. In human experience, temperatures apparently did not rise or fall radically in less than millennia, so the uniformitarian principle declared that such changes had never happened in the past.In fact, there have been around a score of these abrupt climate changes over the last 110,000 years; the only truly stable period has been the last 11,000 years or so. Turns out, the present isn't the key to the past - it's the exception.
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