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The physicist George Gamow related in his autobiography how, as a boy, he once saved the bread he had been given during communion, ran home, and examined it under a microscope. He credited this incident as being the origin of his atheism.

Now who's being gullible?

As for the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano, the claim that since some objects are found to be real flesh and blood, this somehow proves that a miracle occurred 1300 years ago, just shows how incredibly gullible many people are.

Some objects? The "objects" in question were a validly consecrated host and a chalice filled with wine. You quit the thread before seeing this post.

Gullible? You have no problem believing that Jesus Christ is God but don't believe what He said. Either He spoke the Truth or He lied. Which is it?

The physicist George Gamow related in his autobiography how, as a boy, he once saved the bread he had been given during communion, ran home, and examined it under a microscope. He credited this incident as being the origin of his atheism.

Now who's being gullible?

Not sure what you mean by your comment. Here we have a case where a young person is showing initiative and trying to find out things for himself rather than merely accepting what he has been told. That seems laudable to me.

As for the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano, the claim that since some objects are found to be real flesh and blood, this somehow proves that a miracle occurred 1300 years ago, just shows how incredibly gullible many people are.

Some objects? The "objects" in question were a validly consecrated host and a chalice filled with wine.

"The Flesh and Blood of the miracle can still be seen today. The Host-Flesh, which is the same size as the large Host used today in the Latin Church, is fibrous and light brown in colour, and becomes rose-coloured when lighted from the back. The Blood consists of five coagulated globules and has an earthly colour resembling the yellow of ochre." - link

You quit the thread before seeing this post.

I already read much of that information in post #3. The fact that an accurate scientific test has been conducted on the items possessed by the church in Lanciano and that they have been proved to be flesh and blood does not cause me to be impressed that a miracle has occurred. After 1300 years there is a BIG problem with proving chain-of-custody. Furthermore it is of course possible that a surreptitious substitution occurred at the time of the original "miracle". Of course both of these points are obvious to anyone with an open mind.

I am slightly impressed at the preservation of these items, but not enough to believe in a miracle.

Gullible? You have no problem believing that Jesus Christ is God ...

This will probably cause you to think ill of me, but unfortunately I do have a problem believing that.