Timeline for Is there evidence that Saint Bernard of Corleone knew the day of his death in advance?
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| Mar 5, 2012 at 2:29 | vote | accept | Hendy | ||
| Jan 11, 2012 at 14:15 | comment | added | Hendy | @userunknown: This is my last comment on this. You seem pretty set on how you want to think about this. I don't believe in or support the Vatican as a supernatural authority -- but if they had evidence, they'd have evidence. I care about the evidence, not who ends up making the claim based on it. In the end, we don't even need to care about this discussion... because there appears to be no evidence :) Good day. | |
| Jan 11, 2012 at 3:33 | comment | added | user unknown | They don't believe those things, they make them up. Especially in that time. A mentioning in that time would be a good indication for fraud. | |
| Jan 11, 2012 at 2:30 | comment | added | Hendy | @userunknown: I took the latter part of your question as addressed at my answer in general (as in, the collective lack of mention), not specifically the Vatican. I really don't care to give it much thought. The Vatican loves its miracles; in fact, it requires them for sainthood. Not that this is a particularly good one, but I at least find it plausible that if they had any reason of worth to think it happened, they'd have featured it in their biography. That's all I was saying. It's simply another place that is pro-Bernard, yet says nothing about this. | |
| Jan 10, 2012 at 23:55 | comment | added | user unknown | @Hendy: I ask again: Do you really think it is absence of evidence, if the vatican has no material from 16something? With other words, that the Vatican has evidence for anything? | |
| Jan 10, 2012 at 22:59 | comment | added | Hendy | @chad: Not so; I was skeptical of the claim in general, as every instance of the claim I found was vague and non-referenced. I couldn't track down an origin, only people copying and pasting the same sentence over and over (and I mean that literally; for example). I simply wanted to know why the claim was being made in the first place. So far, I still don't have that answer. It seems like folklore; like this. | |
| Jan 10, 2012 at 22:50 | comment | added | Hendy | @userunknown: Point taken. Well, absence of evidence really can mean evidence of absence. In seriousness, I tried to address the inadequacies of this approach while still showing that the above can at least update our prior probabilities in a certain direction. | |
| Jan 10, 2012 at 21:02 | comment | added | user unknown | So you think "official Vatican biography" would have been a prove of something? :) How can the absence mean anything? | |
| Jan 10, 2012 at 20:06 | comment | added | Hendy | @Chad: Why thank you. It was the best way I thought of to try and tackle it. Perhaps it isn't the greatest question, but it interested me, so I asked it :) | |
| Jan 10, 2012 at 20:03 | comment | added | Chad | I still think this is a bad question - But this is a good answer for it. | |
| Jan 10, 2012 at 18:57 | history | answered | Hendy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |