Just to reiterate, Lacy's report simply states that he is reasonably certain that the photo had not been tampered with, and that the "halo" was simply light. The supernatural is far from the only explanation for the appearance of a blob of light in a photo. Far more likely is that it's just that; a blob of light, which are pretty common in pictures even today. I doubt anyone would see a lens-flare effect in a photo today and think that it was anything but a trick of the light.
Then again, people used to think that rainbows were god's promise not to flood the world.
Then again, people used to think that rainbows were god's promise not to flood the world.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
