Manufactured Miracles

Re “Considering the Odds, ‘Miracles’ Are Strictly Ho-Hum Stuff,” Commentary, Sept. 20: You are to be congratulated for presenting Michael Shermer’s somewhat obscure and largely misunderstood subject on odds. The importance of understanding probabilities in everyday thinking cannot be overestimated. For what it is worth, my definition of a miracle: a personalized improbability.

Henry Walrond

Bakersfield