How do you know that? How do you know literally any other depiction or story about him or any other character in the Bible is correct? Noah's ark is impossible for instance. Same thing with the whole Egyptians enslaving the people of Israel and many of the supposedly godsent plagues have been explained by completely natural logic and ecological knowledge.
People can lie. People can misremember things. And people are very, very prone to attribute supernatural explanations to what they cannot comprehend. Eyewitness testimony is close to the worst kind of evidence you can get.
It's better than no one witessing it. And eye witness testimony is not as unreliable as you suggest. When you say "cannot comprehend" what are you referring to here?
It's WORSE that no one witnessing anything because it actively spreads misinformation. Example of a thing they could not comprehend getting a supernatural explanation: The ancient greeks didn't know how thunder worked so they came up with the idea that a god named Ζέυς was responsible for it.
Every modern biologist ever. However that isn't the only evidence available and there's no need to rely on it. There is fossil evidence, genetic evidence, and even simple logic to back it up.
Noah's ark is impossible for instance. Same thing with the whole Egyptians enslaving the people of Israel and many of the supposedly godsent plagues have been explained by completely natural logic and ecological knowledge.
Eyewitness testimony is close to the worst kind of evidence you can get.
Example of a thing they could not comprehend getting a supernatural explanation: The ancient greeks didn't know how thunder worked so they came up with the idea that a god named Ζέυς was responsible for it.