Finally, given that people have cell phones with cameras now, and given that virtually everything else shows up on YouTube, I would think that there would be at least some credible video.
Um, most of the miracles I’ve herd are not the kind that seem miraculous in a video stripped of context.
That itself is a point against the existence of miracles. If miracles don’t exist, you’d expect that all reports of miracles look like non-miracles on video. The result is entirely expected if miracles don’t exist, but extremely contrived if they do.
If faith healing only does one specific thing, that’s a plausible explanation: perhaps by chance the one specific thing it does doesn’t look good on video.
But faith healing isn’t supposed to do only one specific thing. It supposedly can heal a lot of different things—yet somehow all of the things it heals don’t look good on video. That’s a much bigger coincidence—why can’t it restore lost limbs, or cause scars to vanish in seconds, or grow hair on a bald person, yet it can cure hundreds of different conditions, as long as they’re indistinguishable on video from not-curing?
Um, most of the miracles I’ve herd are not the kind that seem miraculous in a video stripped of context.
That itself is a point against the existence of miracles. If miracles don’t exist, you’d expect that all reports of miracles look like non-miracles on video. The result is entirely expected if miracles don’t exist, but extremely contrived if they do.
Faith Healing doesn’t look like much on a video. A person with cancers who stops having cancer doesn’t suddenly look different.
If faith healing only does one specific thing, that’s a plausible explanation: perhaps by chance the one specific thing it does doesn’t look good on video.
But faith healing isn’t supposed to do only one specific thing. It supposedly can heal a lot of different things—yet somehow all of the things it heals don’t look good on video. That’s a much bigger coincidence—why can’t it restore lost limbs, or cause scars to vanish in seconds, or grow hair on a bald person, yet it can cure hundreds of different conditions, as long as they’re indistinguishable on video from not-curing?