Can you argue your way into believing in God? - alex wennerberg
In a 2021 paper, Fr. Philippe Dalleur argues that this photograph, taken of some of the tens of thousands of witnesses in 1917 in Fátima, Portugal, shows a pattern of "infrared shadows" resulting from a warm energy-generating source that quickly dried the witnesses' clothing. These shadows corroborate visual shadows, which, through photogrammetric analysis, show the presence of a non-sun emitter of energy 12 degrees lower than the sun. This image is cited in Ethan Muse's 8,000-word Substack post It Wasn't the Sun!, which is a response to Scott Alexander's 25,000-word Substack post, itself a refutation of Ethan Muse's original 6,000-word Substack post, Our Lady of Fatima. According to Muse, a combination of photographic analysis and witness testimony provides incontrovertible evidence that, on October 13th, 1917, God produced several miraculous objective phenomena consistent with a prophecy that apparitions of the Virgin Mother Mary gave to three small children earlier that year in Fáti