tazzygirl
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Now, back to the OP.
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God turned the water in Egypt to Blood, he swarmed the nation with frogs,flies and locust and every first born male died at the hand of god. He threw down fire to burn an animal sacrifice that was offered to him, turned a stick into a snake and destroyed the walls of Jericho. He obliterated sodom and Gomorrah and split the red sea in two. Jesus walked on water and replicated food, healed the sick and raised others from the dead.
Water to blood... logical potential explanations...
(plague 1—water turned into blood, fish died)
The redness in the Nile could have actually been pollution caused by volcanic activity, specifically that of Santorini, which erupted around 1500 B.C. and whose ash is found in the Nile region. The silt could make the Nile turn blood red, and would also render it undrinkable. Heavy rains in the red-soiled area of Lake Victoria could have caused reddened water to wash downstream.
Alternatively, a red toxic algal bloom (red tide) could have produced large quantities of toxins that would kill fish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagues_of_Egypt
Tell me, who at that time would have known about algea, pollution, the effects of a volcano? Yet, when people were demanding answers, someone had to come up with some.
The rest are written, along with potential scientific explanations, of the plagues in the above link. I dont consider any of those "miracles"
Want a miracle? The discovery of pennicillin.
The discovery of penicillin is attributed to Scottish scientist and Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming in 1928.[15] He showed that, if Penicillium notatum were grown in the appropriate substrate, it would exude a substance with antibiotic properties, which he dubbed penicillin. This serendipitous observation began the modern era of antibiotic discovery. The development of penicillin for use as a medicine is attributed to the Australian Nobel laureate Howard Walter Florey together with the German Nobel laureate Ernst Chain and the English biochemist Norman Heatley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin#Discovery
But using the "miracles" in such a way as to extol the virtues of science while backslapping the belief of religion... everything begins as just a belief. Science just takes it further to explore and explain that belief. Sometimes with a good ending, sometimes not.
An unexpected observation... something that had been in use since the Middle Ages without knowing the mechanics behind its use.
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But going back to those biblical times when the population of the planet was far less than it is now and education was not as widespread perhaps people could be swayed by the magnificent miracles, but why choose to perform for a minority of the ignorant rather than the majority of the educated, what is the problem, what is he afraid of ?
What is who afraid of? Is it fear? Or is it a lack of understanding that the whole society had? How would you go back in time and explain to a biblical era person the ability to replace an organ? eyes? revive a drowning vitctim for that matter? They would consider those things miracles. We would consider them everyday occurances.
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Now as humanity has progressed to the point where one person or a small group of like minded persons can initiate the destruction of all life on earth, why is God not making his presence felt more forcibly, for surely destruction of all life on earth is his concern or is it true God gave the planet to the humans to do with as they wish ?
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Why such an interest in the people of planet Earth in the ancient past, but seemingly not so now and I say that because of what we know of the natural occurances that wipe out millions of people indiscriminantly saint and sinner in one go, the tsunamis and earth quakes of recent times, events which in the ancient past undoubtedly would have been attributed to the hand of god and those killed be labelled as some sort of evil God wished to destroy or make an example of ?
I will repeat, the Bible is a beautifully written story. Some people take it literally. The majority do not. Even nonreligious people believe some of the Bible is accurate... and it is, to a point. Science has explained much... and I believe it will eventually explain everything. As for miracles, they are now worked through science, at least that is my belief.
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