(November 2, 2016 at 12:49 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(November 2, 2016 at 11:45 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Well apparently those people who didn't see anything weren't devout enough.
I don't think so.
Most people there, numbered in the tens of thousands, saw the zig zagging sun movements across the sky. But some didn't. Plenty of the ones who didn't were Catholic (as has been linked here already), and plenty of the ones who did were skeptic.
That's the thing with miracles. We don't understand why God grants this gift to some but not to others.
So, we have a wobbling sun which could not be seen by all the people gathered there.
Some saw it, some of those who saw it were believers... some were skeptic... some of those who didn't see it were believers, some were skeptic.
This means that belief is not the operating factor to see the wobbling sun.
To my mind, mirage is the word that best describes the events... a rising column of air, charged with water distorting the view. Such a column would not be homogeneous, so it stands to reason that some people would see through it while others not.
Add to that the fact that the location is kinda shaped like a bowl, and the effect would only happen right there. Anyone away from "Cova da Iria" (luckily, the clue is in the name, 'cova' is a hole in the ground), would be unable to look through this air column towards the sun.
Have you seen such effects before?
Ever heard of this? http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-na...09/?no-ist
