"I believe Steve can doubt a remarkable sighting. Even Westley can doubt what he saw and believed to be marzipan."

Well doubt is as much as I can do. I can't disprove the story, just doubt it, but doubt's a useless word unless qualified. So I doubt the story almost to the point of impossibility. Using evidence and reason, my assessment is that the likelihood of the story being true is vanishingly small. My whole point is that I have not arrived at that conclusion via faith.

A few years ago, I reported here that I once saw ball lightning moving over the houses in my street then disappearing into Epping Forest. There is no doubt in mind that any other explanation for what I saw was not feasible. The thing is, I have no evidence. Witness is not evidence unless corroborated, and even then convincing corroboration is quite difficult to achieve. There's no way I can persuade anyone that I saw ball lightning, or even that ball lightning exists at all. Yet the phenomenon has been reported many times, and many independent accounts (try YouTube) chime quite well with each other. There's a long way to go before the phenomenon becomes universally acknowledged as true. I suppose it would be superfluous to suggest that, even so, it has a lot more going for it than God has, the main difference being that it has yet to attract advocates who see it as a potential instrument of control. Just scientists, that's all. The world can seem upside down at times.