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Do You Think the Rod Shaped Bacteria Could Be Responsible for These Five Cases?
Frauds involving eucharistic miracles undoubtedly have been committed by various individuals in history for reasons cluding fame, profit, mental illness and simply pranking others. The question is whether the scientific evidence supports the idea of hoaxes in these five cases. All it takes is one case that can't be explained this way to prove the reality of a phenomenon. If you were a scept materialists, someone who didn't believe that miracles are possible, what aspects of them would you focus on? I'd focus on what's known as pro providence, or chain of custody. There are ways experts can try to detect such fakes, but it isn't always easy. Sometimes antiquities