The Case Against Miracles Quotes

“no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish;”
― John W. Loftus, The Case Against Miracles

“science is a bulldozer that moves at the speed of a glacier. You may never see it progressing from year to year, but it is moving and changing everything in its path.”
― John W. Loftus, The Case Against Miracles

“Christine Overall makes a step towards the same conclusion, “If Jesus was the Son of God, I want to know why he was hanging out at a party, making it go better [turning water into wine], when he could have been healing lepers, for example.”[74] We can press the point further. Suppose a miraculous event suddenly heals all the suffering in the world today. An omnibenevolent being would have done it sooner. Why not yesterday? And why not in Auschwitz or Dachau in 1945, and why not when the bubonic plague was ravaging and killing millions in Europe during the 1300s?[75] We are left with this question: There are vast amounts of comparable suffering in the history of sentience that were not or are not being alleviated by miracles. How could we possibly infer infinite goodness, love, or kindness in some supernatural source that has shown the ability and the willingness to fix a select few and knowingly ignore the rest? Overall has the correct answer, “a being that engages in events that are trivial, capricious, and biased cannot be a morally perfect God.”
― John W. Loftus, The Case Against Miracles

“It is true that some of the miracles of the Bible are reported to have occurred in the presence of a good number of witnesses. But it must be emphasized that the testimony of one person, or even of four, that some event was witnessed by a multitude is not the same as having the testimony of the multitude itself.”
― John W. Loftus, The Case Against Miracles