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To: Syncretic
Many thousands of accounts of miracles are a form of evidence.

Not a form of physical evidence.

Not a form or particularly reliable evidence, either. Ask any lawyer - eyewitness testimony is the least reliable. People frequently see what they want to see. The eye is easily fooled.

291 posted on 02/02/2006 9:22:15 AM PST by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: highball

There are the miraculous cures that are among the most frequent documented miracles currently used for declaring sainthood.

They are ususally backed by medical documentation, however a shortcoming is such possible in the spontateous regressions in cancer which have been inadequately studied.

The regressions are real but some possible causes have yet to be eliminated, most significantly fevers which have been noted but not seriously studied to any degee.


293 posted on 02/02/2006 9:31:40 AM PST by From many - one.
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To: highball
Ask any lawyer - eyewitness testimony is the least reliable.

There goes our court system!

312 posted on 02/02/2006 11:15:09 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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