Idea allows us to consider not just our world, but possible worlds. Therefore can we, in some imaginable world, some sort of with a much better individual character, obtain effectively credible testimony? Certainly. Give persons more accurate perceptions, larger moral integrity and improved intellectual memory. Or populate the world with Three Principle Asimov robots. The reliability of testimony in such conceivable sides could increase to adequate integrity.
Compared to the time of Hume, we possess innovative technology. We can report, detail and keep recordings and knowledge of types. We can gather phenomena in numerous media. We are able to disseminate, cross-check, evaluation, question, and otherwise study reports and knowledge of any occurrence.
So, if in our time the walls of Jericho have already been foretold in the future down at the sound of trumpets after seven days of marching, CNN, and Fox, and every news store, and a plethora of clinical devices, and numerous electronic recording devices, could stay ready to view, history and document the event.
I will keep as maybe not discussed a corollary, but regrettable question. The wonders of God-made-man, of Jesus, didn't arise beneath the scrutiny of contemporary techniques, but two millennium ago. Does the testimony of that time from historical Galilee increase to adequate precision to admit to magic? We will not discuss that here, but we're left to ponder the question.
Each day, across our globe, and more extensively acim throughout the universe, within the billions and billions of incidents, a subset for sure fall outside the standard, several standard deviations outside the ordinary.
But amongst this cascade of activities, can we separate the uniquely divine from the only extraordinary. Just how can we also recognize a phenomena to be an act worthy of concern as magic? Note here we suppose enough accurate testimony. We thus question if we will cull from the enormous cacophony of remarkable but usually worldly activities, effectively described, those who symbolize miracles, or at least prospects for miracles.