One is forced to dismiss the sincerity (a matter beyond disagreeing with their interpretation) of all such claimants only if one’s philosophic presuppositions require this. But such certainty of one’s own presuppositions as to dismiss without investigation the sincerity of such a large number of other people’s purported testimony may lack self-critique to the point of hubris. Such a priori dismissal functions more effectively in polemic than in dialogue. Most admit that miracle claims are usually at least subjectively real to individual interpreters (Brownell, “Experience,” 226).
