I was surprised by your defense of the value of eyewitnesses. It's not up to your regular level of scholarship. You should review David Hume's "On Miracles" (from an Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding).

In short, no amount of personal testimony is sufficient to establish a violation of natural law (or even the presence of natural law). Physicists don't believe the facts of physics because of personal testimony from other physicists; rather, they believe because they can do the experiment for themselves. Furthermore, if you don't believe, you can do the experiment and see for yourself. No lesser standard of proof is acceptable for scientific explanations of the world.

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