Some Christians say that the crowd did not see the boat there, but saw that it had been there the day before but now it is not.
If the boat were not there, then why did the crowd stop here? Did they see any traces of a beached boat? Logic says that all traces on the shore will be wiped away by the very first wave. Nothing will survive for the next day. Those Christians failed to explain what technology did the crowd use in order to see things in the past. Logic says that since the crowd had no means to look into the past, then the crowd witnessed the boat in front of them. 'John' says that the crowd ‘saw that there had been only one boat there’, not two boats, not three boats. The crowd saw one beached boat. There was no other boat, so they could not have mistaken it for any other boat. 25 And when they found him across the sea they said to him, ‘Rabbi, WHEN did you get here?’ The crowd weren’t amassed HOW he got here because they already saw the beached boat and knew that he came on foot. They asked him WHEN did he get here.
Christians claim that those were experienced fishermen, so they couldn’t have
been disoriented. Those Christians seem to keep forgetting that even today’s
best and most experienced aviators, with the best navigational instruments,
occasionally do get disoriented, so how about simple fishermen at night, strong
winds and high waves with no reference points at all…?
