I tend to agree, although I find some of the related history quite fascinating. The history behind the story of Noah's ark in particular is an interesting path when you follow it back beyond the jews adaptation to Gilgamesh and prior Sumerian and the geological evidence of there being a widespread flood on the messopotamian plain at the time that might have carried a merchant king out into the sea. There's some fun reading on the subject at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_flood. It's an interesting large scale example of the mutation of rumor. Plus a cursory examination of the origin of the bible is enough to refute all of its miracles on the grounds that they have similar origins, so even if you wanted to disprove them there's no need to drag science into it, because simple, well-established history will suffice.
> I rail like crazy to keep religion out of science.......so > in this case, I > think i'd just as soon prefer science to stay out of > religion too. Trying to > prove or disprove so called "miracles" doesn't have much > point to science. > Just let them have their miracles. Science could never > prove he actually did > walk on water, so trying to prove he actually didn't...is > not only > impossible, but unecessary. Just stay out of it. >> http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060403/jesus_his.h >> tml?source=rss >> >> April 6, 2006 - Jesus may not have actually walked on >> water: he may >> have skated on an isolated, hard to see piece of ice, >> according to a >> study on the weather and water conditions in northern >> Israel in Jesus' >> time. >> >> Doron Nof, professor of Oceanography at Florida State >> University, and >> colleagues report in the April issue of the Journal of >> Paleolimnology >> (the study of prehistoric lakes), that a rare combination >> of water and >> atmospheric conditions in northern Israel could have led >> to the >> formation of "springs ice" on the surface of the Sea of >> Galilee, now >> known as Lake Kinneret. >> >> Nof's team examined the dynamics of a small section of >> Lake Kinneret >> comprising about 10,000 square feet near the salty >> springs that empty >> into it. Currently, ice may form there only once every >> thousand years. >> >> However, temperatures were much lower in the region 2,000 >> years ago. >> .. >> .. >> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:203164 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
