In general, believers will always rationalize whatever they observe as what their religion predicts they should observe. They function on the assumption that it all adds up to normality, so the "sensible" interpretation is always the one that explains what they actually see. In the event that they can be swayed by evidence at all, it's usually because they don't know what reality says, and so they're forced to draw upon the most reasonable interpretation of their religion without reference to the data. This way, when reality contradicts their interpretations, they know that the most obvious interpretation of their religion doesn't explain reality.