I mean the riddle of the doubting Thomas. He didn't have to be an empirical designing person for the virtue of Looking. I think that he looked and saw all the experiences for introspection in the People. He didn't want to Believe anyhow for the systems of the laws the Rabbis represented. But he wanted to believe in their rituals, and saw Them plentifully. He saw them as a mystic would. (too bad: is this a practical Joke?) It's the logic He would apply in the modernism.