BRACE YOURSELVES, I'M GOING TO GET CATHOLIC-IE.
The writer talks about his experience with atheists:
The Medical committee at Lourdes is totally independent of the Church. They use skeptics on the committees, the rules are geared to control for remission. They screen our remission. They are required to use
only the best medical evidence, to consult the doctors of the patients and they cannot make decisions without obtaining the medical records of those doctors.
They do examine the patients. It does have to be proven that the people were sick beforehand! They will only choose a case when they cannot find a naturalistic explanation.
I am not claiming that these cases "prove" the existence of God. But in each case there is enough to make the leap of faith, filling in the gap with a good extraordinary pile of evidence. Atheists are always asserting we need extraordinary evidence.
This is evidence. What most atheists mean by that is a little game of raise the bar. I have played this game, met all their demands for documented miracles and they want more.
They keep raising the bar until it turns out they will not believe until you give them regeneration of severed limbs. I show where St. Anthony did that, well it's a legend. I show a miracle that beatified St. Teresa of Lessex, a man grew grew back new lungs over night, but now that's not good because it's a Mary devotional site. It doesn't matter that the case is documented by the best medical evidence of the day (1916). But that's not good enough because the site it's on is not a science site and the X-rays are not on the net.
Atheists will never be satisfied because they are not seeking truth, they are seeking to guard a paradigm. Be that as it may,
the evidence for miracles at Lourdes is the finest I the world, and is valid and well documented with the best science has to offer to date. That makes it extraordinary. This furnishes a rational warrant for belief. Meaning, if one chooses to construe it as proof it is not irrational to take it as such. (in other words, people who accept miracles are not crazy)
Lourdes evidence is the best. The Saintmaking miracles use the same rules and virtually the same committee, they are very exacting and rigorous. But they are not as pressure free as the Lourdes committee. There is some good evidence from the Protestant world, but not much. Protestants never think about documenting miracles. I also include what I call "the anecdotal pile." I don't think those cases prove anything, they sources are bad and docs stink, but I include them for the purpose of showing how many people in this world experience amazing things they define as "miracle."
Miracles are going on all the time, and they not often given attention, not reported and not believed.
http://doxa.ws/other/Miracles.html