> Would that proof that the lucky underwear was somehow instrumental in fixing their eyes?
No, obviously not, as there's no reason to believe the underwear are sentient.
Rapidly getting what you ask for, when experts have generally agreed it's impossible, would be very striking.
> Apparently the body was able to heal her own eyes
There's no more evidence for that claim than there is for the claim that a saint did it.
Indeed, the fact that medical personnel say "This does not happen" is arguably evidence against the "it was a natural coincidence" interpretation.
I don't mean to suggest that anyone experiencing such a healing should or would necessarily become religious.
I'm just saying that personally, given my other life experiences this far, I probably would ratchet my probability of there being some unnatural power capable of intervening in the universe from ~55% to 90%, if I experienced sudden, dramatic healing of incurable blindness promptly after praying for it.
And, returning to my original point, there are people out there who asked for something vanishingly rare to the point that some experts label it impossible, then get it quite rapidly after praying for it.
That's a fairly reasonable reason to believe in a personal God of some sort, even if it's not the only plausible explanation.
No, obviously not, as there's no reason to believe the underwear are sentient.
Rapidly getting what you ask for, when experts have generally agreed it's impossible, would be very striking.
> Apparently the body was able to heal her own eyes
There's no more evidence for that claim than there is for the claim that a saint did it.
Indeed, the fact that medical personnel say "This does not happen" is arguably evidence against the "it was a natural coincidence" interpretation.
I don't mean to suggest that anyone experiencing such a healing should or would necessarily become religious.
I'm just saying that personally, given my other life experiences this far, I probably would ratchet my probability of there being some unnatural power capable of intervening in the universe from ~55% to 90%, if I experienced sudden, dramatic healing of incurable blindness promptly after praying for it.
And, returning to my original point, there are people out there who asked for something vanishingly rare to the point that some experts label it impossible, then get it quite rapidly after praying for it.
That's a fairly reasonable reason to believe in a personal God of some sort, even if it's not the only plausible explanation.