(August 10, 2017 at 11:42 am)pabsta Wrote: As someone who doesn't appear to believe in the incorruptibles, and given this phenomenon only occurs with devout Catholics, the question you should be asking yourself is how even a single incorrupt body could exist. It completely defies science no matter who's incorrupt body we are speaking about. They are on display all over Europe for you to go see. I am not the one having a problem understanding and believing in them, so it is up to you to go and see them. Next time you schedule a vacation, make it in Europe so you can go see them.
As for differentiating between ordinary and extraordinary claims, that is relative. Atheists seem to categorize many things as extraordinary that others wouldn't. Again, let's assume for the moment that the sun never bobbed up and down in the sky. The question then becomes, why did thousands of people submit testimonies saying they think it did?
"on display" are the key words here. If you can only see them, you're only taking the word of a believer. Many so-called "incorruptibles" are accented or even made, of wax. At least one was found to have been a recent body instead of the saint they were identified as.
Why the testimonies? You answered your own question. They THINK they did.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
