(February 9, 2017 at 1:32 pm)sneroul the thinker Wrote: No i am not a believer nor debunker. I will give you my short live story. I was raised catholic but, I started to doupt my faith after beginning to study Cultural anthropology. as a child a spend allot of time reading books about ghost aliens and demons. the people who wrote those books seem to be qualified enough to write about them but they never presented solid evidence that they really happened. never the less, I know memory can be faulty but lets say a 100 people saw someone commit a at the same time murder. now depending on where you live that may or may not be enough but lets say a 100000 people saw it then the murderer would almost certainly be sent for life. David Hume said that a miracle should only be accepted if an natural explanation seem more far fetched. he also said that witness account are never enough if you could point me to another event where the same amount of people saw something paranormal ill appreciate it.
Can provide a quote from Hume for that? I'm thinking maybe you misunderstood.
Regardless, let's go with that. Which is more far-fetched? The sun magically bouncing around in the sky, or thousands of superstitious people that had been staring at the sun for hours, which is well-known to cause hallucinations, had their brains go on the fritz? I mean, if it's such an awesome miracle, how come so many people didn't see anything?
You do know that when one believer claims to have experienced a miracle others will lie and say they did too in order to fit in and make it appear like they're just as pious?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
