Why would you need to? So called prophesies are usually extremely tenuous, and when they are examined objectively amount to nothing more than anecdotal claims that someone once claimed something and that it happened as described. Even if this were true, and we had no explanation as to how the person did it, all it amounts to is an argument from ignorance fallacy.

Nothing can be rationally asserted as true because of the lack of a contrary explanation. People get the lottery numbers correct every day of the week, against massive odds, it doesn't mean they have the gift of prophesy.

The really funny thing is such claims are falsifiable anyway and could easily be tested by asking people who claimed they had such a power to consistently demonstrate it under strictly monitored double blind clinical trials. No one has ever done so obviously, and for fairly obvious reasons. The Templeton foundation, the RCC, both have massive resources to conduct proper research into such claims. Of course the usual desperate rationalisations ensue when prophesy fails, so if the people who believe it is true are going to ignore every failure, but trumpet every alleged success then why should we care about such claims when they are made using such obvious selection bias?

There's nothing to debunk as far as I am concerned and the burden of proof is entirely with those claiming prophesy exists. If it's a natural phenomenon then it can be tested, and yet has not been, quelle surprise. If it is not a natural phenomenon then it is unfalsifiable and we can learn nothing from it.

If any deity exists and wants me to know it does then the idea it is using pathetic cheap magic tricks likes prophesy is beyond absurd to me. On the other hand this is precisely the kind of vapid flimflam archaic and superstitious humans would have found compelling.

All I have to say, show the prophecies.

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I especially like the bible prophecy about cursing women by giving them a hard labor. That was funny. My kids slid out, almost across the room. It's a good thing there wasn't an open window.