Are miracles probable? (Paine)
July 10th, 2007 | Published in Quotes, Religion, Science, Truth
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course, but we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time; it is therefore at least millions to one, that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.
–Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1794), p. 290