Looking for a Miracle by Joe Nickell

Looking for a Miracle by Joe Nickell

The willingness of people to believe in magical icons, mystical relics, and miraculous pictures (like the Image of Guadalupe) is almost as curious as these phenomena themselves. Though they cry out for scientific investigation, millions of people blindly accept them as fact. Historical and paranormal investigator Joe Nickell confronts such strange events, powers, and objects as the Shroud of Turin, bleeding or weeping statues, burning handprints, liquefying blood, ecstatic visions, miraculous cures, and people speaking in tongues in Looking for a Miracle. Departing from standard critiques of religion, Nickell carefully investigates the evidence relating to specific claims. Religious believers and rationalists alike have much to learn from this revealing examination of the evidence for the miraculous.

Joe Nickell (Amherst, NY) has been called the modern Sherlock Holmes and the real-life Scully (from the X-Files). He has been on the trail of man-beasts and other mysterious creatures and phenomena for four decades. Since 1995 he has been the world's only fulltime, professional, science-based paranormal investigator. His careful, often innovative investigations have won him international respect in a field charged with controversy. He is the author of numerous books, including most recently Real or Fake? Studies in Authentication and Adventures in Paranormal Investigation. See www.joenickell.com for more.
John F. Fischer is a forensic analyst with a Florida crime laboratory, an experienced crime-scene investigator, and an author.

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ISBN 13	9781573926805
ISBN 10	1573926809
Title	Looking for a Miracle
Author	Joe Nickell
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Prometheus Books
Year published	1999-02-01
Number of pages	253
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