David Hume made the argument that the various claims of miracles made by conflicting religions serve as evidence that no such claims are true. The topic is thoughtfully discussed by Ebonmuse at Daylight Atheism [1]:
In other words, Hume says, the conflicting miracle claims of various religions cancel each other out. These religions cannot all be true, since they make incompatible theological claims. (I note for completeness’ sake that they can all be false.) We can safely assume that, if a religion is false, any miracle claims advanced in its name are exaggerations or frauds. It follows that when considering whether any particular miracle claim is true, we must consider all the miracle claims of all other religions to count as evidence to the contrary. And since there are so many of these, no matter which religion’s miracle claims you’re considering, the vast number of miracle claims from other religions which stand in opposition to it make the claim under consideration very probably false.
Check out the full post (and the vigorous discussion) here. [2]
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