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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by thrww20210329 on Monday March 29, 2021 @11:41AM (#26623434)
What counts as evidence?

Some of the Catholic miracles sure seem pretty solid to me in terms of conveying God's will to us.

Like the one in Fatima, which was witnessed by thousands of people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun

Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by nonotreally on Monday March 29, 2021 @11:49AM (#26623616)
Every single miracle we have investigated seriously has been proven to be perfectly normal.

As an example:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/23/india-blasphem...

Just because something is unexplained currently does not give any weight to the idea that it was a miracle.

Millions of people saw David Copperfield vanish the Statue of Liberty as well... But I certainly wouldn't be tempted to pretend he actually made it vanish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=823GNH4Rczg

We don't have a single example where the opposite has been true.

Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by unknown_apostle on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:04PM (#26624869)
When you use that word "we", are you also speaking for me?
Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by nonotreally on Monday March 29, 2021 @03:18PM (#26626899)
Humanity doesn't have a single example where the opposite has been true.

Yes. I am speaking for all of humanity here.

I welcome evidence to the contrary.

But that is kind of the point...

Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by thrww20210329 on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:05PM (#26623883)
https://cruxnow.com/commentary/2017/05/fatima-and-the-atheis...

The miracle was also seen by sailors on a British ship off the coast of Portugal. Foley recounts an experience in England. He gave a presentation on Fatima at a college in England and was told by one of the teachers that her grandfather saw the miracle from his ship and wrote about it to his wife — “without obviously understanding what it meant or its significance.”

And finally, what most convincingly shows that the miracle was not only in the minds and perception of the witnesses is the fact that the crowd at Fatima felt the heat of the sun as it approached them, and their clothes and the ground — which had been soaked by torrential rain — were dry at the end of the miracle.

How does one claim this is just some optical mirage?

Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by vidarh on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:19PM (#26624129)
One doesn't. At least not only an optical illusion. There is no consistent set of reports. Given that the reports are all wildly inconsistent and contradictory, and many reported seeing and feeling nothing at all, it's clear the reports can not be be taken at face value.
Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by nonotreally on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:39PM (#26624455)
Exactly this.

In addition, the default shouldn't be "therefore miracle".

The default assumption should be "humans are easy to trick".

My claim here, is that if we put our brightest minds on this, they will come back with a terrifically mundane explanation for it. In the same way that weeping statues are always just water from a pipe somewhere.

Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by vidarh on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:18PM (#26624104)
Thousands of people producing wildly inconsistent stories, including many who reported not seeing anything at all, and a wide range of photographers who all failed to get a picture of the purported "miracle".

Get a bunch of people convinced they'll see a miracle and make them stare at the sun, and sure, you'll be able to get a lot of people saying they've seen a lot of things.

Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by elteto on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:02PM (#26624834)
So we should accept the 2000 year old book based on a miracle from 1917?
Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by thrww20210329 on Monday March 29, 2021 @03:46PM (#26627250)
In terms of evidence occuring in modern times, I think the various miracles in the 20th century are strong candidates.

One might also look into the testimonies of various exorcists in modern times for evidence that the supernatural exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhhi7Fk3ueI

We also have stigmata, such as those received by Padre Pio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padre_Pio

Just trying to offer a few more things that count as evidence from modern times.