Is God a logical contradiction?

[Simon Moon]

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How do you know that this first hand testimony was not a misidentification of some other, wholly natural event? How do you know that this first hand testimony was not a misinterpretation of some wholly natural, nonstandard brains state?

There are 1000's of people that claim to have been abducted by aliens. Some of these experiences are shared. Others have been observed by multiple bystanders.

Do you believe these events occurred as the people reported them?  

If someone that you knew and trusted, reported to see a dragon, would that provide any more credibility to their claim?

One thing that makes the ghost claims more believable to me is the huge number of claims throughout history.

First of all, that is a fallacy.

But, people have been reporting dragons all over the world for 1000's of years. Chinese, Aztec, Inca, Northern Europe, and I'm sure other cultures have dragon mythologies. And yes, there are people today that believe dragons still exist.

Yeti have been reported by pre-Buddhist religions since before the 1st century BCE, until the present.
Jinn have been reported by pre-Islamic cultures since before 500 CE, until the present.

Do these claims become any more credible to you because they are so old?

But you are still discounting the fact, that humans have had the same brains for hundreds of thousands of years, with the same errors in perceptions, errors in memories, susceptibility to visual and auditory illusions, etc. So, the same types of entirely natural events, that would have caused our ancestors to mistakenly 'detect' ghosts, would still be present in our brains, and cause humans today to mistakenly see ghosts.

There have been many experiments done to show just how easy it is to fool our senses and memories. And there have been zero tests to show that ghosts exist.

Multiplying bad evidence, does not somehow become good evidence.