Doubt in disbelief

[Simon Moon]

possibly they changed some things but 70000 people is a hard lie and there is photo's of the crowd

These were not skeptics, they were Catholics, expecting to see a miracle, or else they wouldn't have been there.

Just a small amount of research on how faulty the human memory can be, and our need to confirm the consensus of our peers, should give you an inkling of how such a story can be created.

From an article on skeptoid.com:

"Most of what's popularly reported about the sun incident, such as the colors and the spinning, comes from Father John de Marchi, a Catholic priest who spent years interviewing eyewitnesses to build evidence supporting the miraculous event. But more objective assessments of the eyewitness accounts have found very little evidence of a single shared experience. Author Kevin McClure, who also compiled eyewitness accounts, reported that he had "never seen such a collection of contradictory accounts in any of the research I have done in the past 10 years." If you were there, as a devout Catholic (otherwise you wouldn't be there), you fully believed in a miracle happening that day (otherwise you wouldn't be there), whether you personally saw anything or not you'd support the majority opinion, and probably go to your grave insisting that a miracle happened there. There's no surprise that Father de Marchi was able to form a consensus description of a spinning color wheel of a sun, and no need for any actual event to justify his consensus."


So, please don't think you are thinking critically about this alleged 'evidence' for a god you think you have found.