[Re: Can science explain miracles?]
To some extent, yes.
Some time ago (I forget the exact details) two scientists tested the parting of the Red Sea. They put water in a funnel (that looked a lot like the Red Sea) and passed a magnet under and around it. The water parted.
They came to the conclusion that the Red Sea could not have parted because where would you get a magnet that big?
Of course, since God has virtually unlimited power, he could have employed any type of magnetism he wanted.
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Two scientists? Kent Hovind and who else?
Also, why even bother coming up with a "scientific" explanation when it will all eventually boil down to goddidit?
"They put water in a funnel (that looked a lot like the Red Sea) and passed a magnet under and around it. The water parted.
They came to the conclusion that the Red Sea could not have parted because where would you get a magnet that big? "
I am stupider for having read that.
Papabear wrote: Exodus is mostly fiction.
I'm intrigued how the Egyptians followed the Israelites in chariots when God had just killed all their horses. Some of them twice (all of them in the fifth plague and then their firstborn in the tenth).
"They put water in a funnel (that looked a lot like the Red Sea)"
WTF is he talking about? The Red Funnel?
Also since god has unlimited power he could have magicked a giant glass dam into existence, doesnt make it any less a stupid explanation.
Sea of reeds, moron.
Edit: Beaten.
How's this for a miracle?
Take a cup and an index card (or playing card, whatever you deem convenient). Place a coin on top of the card. Pull the card really quickly. The coin is BEING HELD BACK BY AN INVISIBLE HAND WHICH CAUSES IT TO FALL INSIDE THE CUP. OMGWTFBBQCHKN!!!!!!!!1111!!!ONE!!!
If god had unlimited power, he wouldn't have had to use magnetism at all.
See how ridiculous it looks when you try to invoke the supernatural in a scientific argument?
Simple answer as to how the Red Sea was parted.
It wasn't.
There is no evidence of the Exodus at all ,so no-one had to cross it,however even the people who wrote the tale obviously spotted (or it was pointed out to them) that the Red Sea was a significant barrier and so just invoked a miracle as a plot device to get around that problem.
A similar plot device was used to explain how they ate for 40 wandering in the wilderness i.e manna from Heaven.
Well, I saw some show on Discovery Channel several years ago saying that a sufficiently strong wind combined with the shape of the local sea floor could look like the sea parted. Of course, the wind speed required would probably mean the armies wouldn't be able to march anyway.
OK, This never happened. There's nothing in that "experiment" that suits the myth. The results would have no bearing on weither that ever happened.
Now walking in the eye of a tornado could have maybe somehow worked, and Gods can certainly control weather according to varied accounts. And Tornados certainly happen as opposed to ridiculous and pointless shit fundies make up
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