Hume's challenges to miracles

No miracle has a sufficient number of witnesses

• A quantity of educated, trustworthy witnesses to a public event of 'such unquestioned good sense as to secure us against all delusions in themselves' are required
• The witnesses would have to have a lot to lose if they were found to be lying
• Hume claims that in all history there have not been such witnesses to a miracle

People are prone to look for marvels and wonders

• The passion and surprise arising from miracles, being an agreeable emotion, gives a tendency towards belief in those events
• A religionist may know a miracle…