Of course ants don't have the concept of gods or of miracles. But my point isn't that the ant would deem my intervention to be strange. On the contrary, the ant would mistake the twig for part of the natural environment, assimilating my activity to the ant's normal course.

And my question is whether we might be doing the same thing, mistaking natural phenomena for what is actually as unusual (from an ant's perspective) as a higher-level organism reaching down to intervene. We know a person helping an ant with a twig is unusual, given the ant's limited conceptions. That's because we happen to be the higher organisms in question. But if we're like the ants in this scenario, we might posit the equivalent of a twig in human affairs.