questions are historical in nature, and history, like all inductive disciplines, is based on weighing the evidence derived from the sources before a decision is made. Historians must examine their data to ask whether an event actually occurred, in spite of the doubts that might be raised.2 A common objection to this approach is that history has no tools or abilities to investigate miracles. Besides, we are told, this subject is a matter of faith. So to employ history for a religious task is like