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They don't. Science does not deal with matters like folk tales, superstitions and urban legends. Science deals with hypotheses that can be tested and verified by experimentation or observation. Children claiming to have experienced a vision is not a subject of concern to scientists, any more than it is a concern of judges, chemical engineers or garbage truck drivers. Opinion:
Poor answer. There was a crowd of witnesses to the event, not simply children. Answer:
Science does study visions, hallucinations, ghosts and seeing faces in clouds to determine the causes. Some of the causes are from health problems (brain injury), extreme stress (American Aboriginal spirit quests involving heat and dehydration), mistaken identification of natural causes , a protective measure to see "tigers in the forest" to avoid threats, a natural tendency to see human faces in clouds and smudges of colour (pareidolia). They have even been able to reproduce some of the experiences by direct electromagnetic stimulation of the brain or psychoactive drugs. While some cases are marked cause unknown (pending further investigation) no peer reviewed scientific study has concluded the event to result from supernatural. Further: There are many such cases of crowds sharing (or claiming to share) a vision. It happens all over the world, with different religions, and has happened in the past as well. There is, however, no good evidence to suggest that there is a supernatural cause behind any visions. There are also simpler possible explanations, including (but not limited to):
* Collective hallucinations - where the people in a crowd all believe that they all saw something happen because they were susceptible to suggestion at the time - for example, they expected a specific religious miracle to occur. See the link for more details and examples.
* Outright fraud - magicians and conjurers have been using techniques for millenia to fool whole crowds, and some unethical people will use these techniques for purposes other than just entertainment * the "me too phenomenon" - where people want to be included in the group that can see the emperors new clothes, are possessed by the spirits, or see a ghost and so forth
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Who is francisco of fatima?
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What has the author Desmond E Stringer written?
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What was the effect on the community of the apparition of Mary Fatima?
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What has the author A del Pinar written?
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The Miracle of the Sun happened in Portugal without a doubt, which does not stop skeptics from trying to find alternative explanations.
When did apparitions take place your lady of fatima?
l9l7. This coincided with the October Revolution in Russia and curiously, were not made public ( the apparitions and religious phenomena) until l937, twenty years later and the year of the Electra Project. It hardly caught on in a flash, pun intended!
Why are Catholics required to believe in the private apparition of Mary in such places as Lourdes Fatima and Guadalupe?
Apparitions of Mary or others are not doctrinal issues and Catholics are not required to accept them.
Who is St. Jacinta?
Jacinta is not yet a saint. She has been beatified, however. She was one of the three children who were witness to a series of apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima.
