Those with normal colour vision should read the number 8. Those with red-green colour vision deficiencies should read the number 3. Total colour blindness should not be able to read any numeral.

Perception is key when we consider spiritual questions. What one person ‘sees’ in the evidence is often not the same as the next person. Some don’t even see the evidence. Others might see it, but don’t acknowledge it. They don’t pay attention to it. It is peripheral, unimportant. Such information doesn’t get through their attention filter.

Still others see the evidence but attribute it to other causes - usually naturalistic ones. Perhaps indeed the evidence can be explained at one level by natural causes, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that that is all there is to say on the matter. Other attributions can be complementary without being contradictory.

Though perception and attribution are important, they are not the whole story. For something to be meaningful, it needs to be personalized. There needs to be some emotional tone infused into the mix before we will commit to something in our heart and engrave it on our memory.

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