Atheists and doubters what do you make of the miracle of the sun in Fatima in 1917?

Answer 1

The what?

Answer 2

For all the doubters who have ridiculed this so far here are some verifiable facts;
The young children of Fatima predicted moths before that on Oct,17th 1917 there would be a public miracle,the Atheist newspapers had a field day laughing at this but many of their reporters were present and witnessed the solar miracle and actually admitted to this in their papers the very next day, also the Masonic government had some of their members there on the day to report back when the promised miracle failed to happen,when it did they left in total fear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Miracle_of_the_Sun
http://www.fatima.org/essentials/facts/miracle.asp

http://www.ewtn.com/fatima/apparitions/October.htm

Answer 3

"According to many witness statements, after a downfall of rain, the clouds broke and the sun appeared as an opaque, spinning disk in the sky.[2] It was said to be significantly less bright than normal, and cast multicolored lights across the landscape, the shadows on the landscape, the people, and the surrounding clouds.[2] The sun was then reported to have careened towards the earth in a zigzag pattern,[2] frightening some of those present who thought it meant the end of the world.[3] Witnesses reported that the ground and their previously wet clothes became completely dry.[4]"

obviously an Alien spaceship.

Answer 4

What did you make of it? I'm assuming you were there and not taking accounts third hand.

Like any major event no one wants to say "I wasn't there" or "I didn't see it". I suspect that every detail including the number of people who claim to have witnessed it were vastly blown out of proportion.

Add to this that no observatory reported seeing anything unusual. People who made a career of making observations of the sky and were looking at it at that very moment say nothing unusual happened. Plus the most detailed accounts were written down some 30 years after it supposedly happened. I think even those who want to believe should probably take it with a grain of salt.

But like anything else that involves religious belief I'm not asking you to not believe and as long as you don't expect me to believe we're both happy.

Answer 5

Even if something unexplainable did occur why would you assume it was the work of one of the many gods that people worship. Why couldnt it just be some natural phenemonon that hadnt been witnessed before?

As no dependable evidence for this so called miracle seems to exist I guess we can discount it just like the rest though.

Answer 6

Probably the same as you (and I) think about the miracle of flying saucers over Washington in the 1940s-50s

Answer 7

No scientific accounts exist of any unusual solar or astronomic activity during the time the sun was reported to have "danced", and there are no witness reports of any unusual solar phenomenon further than forty miles out from Cova da Iria

Answer 8

It wasn't a miracle. A gigantic coronal mass ejection (CME) occurred on May 13, 2000. Probably the largest of the year was recorded by NASA. Every eleven years our sun goes through a period of solar storms and these storms have been with us for centuries of recorded history. Solar flares emit high-speed particles that cause the Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis. Radiation from the solar flares can give passengers in aircraft a dose of radiation equivalent to a medical X-ray. Severe weather on Earth, volcanoes and earthquakes may be all tied to this activity on the sun. Satellites, communications, silicon circuitry, portable phones and alternating current outlets can all be effected. If your appliances start acting up it may be the result of these solar storms. Even severe headaches may be tied to the sun's activity.

Answer 9

I'd say its not the 1st, nor will it be the last case of mass hysteria. Sorry dude, its not a big deal to convince believers that they saw something divine, its like offering children candy.

"...Steuart Campbell, writing for the 1989 edition of Journal of Meteorology, postulated that a cloud of stratospheric dust changed the appearance of the sun on 13 October, making it easy to look at, and causing it to appear yellow, blue, and violet and to spin. In support of his hypothesis, Mr. Campbell reports that a blue and reddened sun was reported in China as documented in 1983."

Answer 10

The fact that the other 2 billion humans didn't see anything would indicate the sun didn't go on any magical journey.

Do you have any idea what would actually happen to the earth and solar system if the sun's orbit did change?

The planet would be torn apart and flung into deep space.

Answer 11

Did the church actually acknowledge it as a miracle? I'd be interested in seeing a link so I can read and research this.