Robert M. Price on Myth and Method  Nothing in Hume or Troeltsch
or Bultmann, that I can see, bids us reject miracle claims
without weighing the evidence. It is just that, given the
limitations imposed upon us (until we invent the time machine,
that is), we cannot detect “probable miracles” even if they
happened! Historical inquiry cannot touch them, even if time
travel would show them to have been real!...Faith claims to be
able to do an end-run around the data and to obtain certainty
about an ostensible miracle via some other way. But what way is
that? It is, I think, nothing more than the will to believe.
Hume already allows us to accept a miracle report, provided any
naturalistic explanation would sound even more far-fetched than
a supernatural one. In appealing to the universal facts of human
experience, Hume is being neither deductive nor circular. He is
merely appealing to what everyone knows: the frequent reports of
the extraordinary we hear from UFO abductees, Loch Ness Monster
fans, people who see