One of the more interesting religion classes I took in high school dissected each of the major miracles in Exodus (the 7 plagues, manna from heaven, water from the rock, etc.) and discussed possible natural causes for each. The parting of the red sea explanation was particularly interesting, wish I could remember the particulars...I think it had to do with a seasonal wind phenomena that could cause a large swath of the middle of the sea become exposed. Fascinating stuff.
(By the way, this was in a religion class taught in a Catholic school. Say what you want about em, but I took 16 years of Catholic school, and never ONCE was taught that Creationism was science :) On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox < [email protected]> wrote: > > On the way home tonight, I heard an intersting commentary from a > secular Jew. He was talking about the miracles that were performed in > order for Moses to free the Jews from the egyptians. Yet when it came > to ww2 and the concentration camps, no miracles were seen. Yet the > concentration camps were more of a malevolent threat to Jews than were > the Egyptians. > > I thought that was a very interesting point. > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 22, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> MoJo wrote: > >> I've never found science and religion to be in conflict myself. > > > > My point was more that when most people hear "fundamentalist > > Christian" they don't think "primarily searches for personal truth". > > > > If they did, then I'd be considered a fundamentalist Christian. > > > > Thus clearly the do-as-I-say-I-do-or-go-to-hell concept came from > > somewhere. > > > > It came from John. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:306326 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
