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Biblical plagues really happened, claim scientists

Mar 30, 2010 15:24

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eroholic March 30 2010, 23:01:08 UTC

This isn't new news, at least not to me.:/ I'm in an atheist group and even we've done presentations on this. Disappointing.

shuraiya March 30 2010, 23:14:28 UTC

I've seen a few documentaries on this topic, and I can see why it would disappoint people from a religious standpoint. I mean, the whole point of the plagues being so miraculous and incredible is the fact that God is said to have done them. But then again, let's remember that Biblical history is not the same as actual history so therefore, these things probably DID happen by natural causes and people had to come up with a cut-and-dry explanation for them and given the time period the Jewish Bible was written, it makes perfect sense to use God as the reason for all this.

/religious studies major

running_farmer March 31 2010, 00:22:46 UTC

good comment. my mom is a united methodist elder and she hates TV shows that do stuff like this but i think it's really neat to look at the bible in a historical and scientific context.

shuraiya March 31 2010, 04:30:34 UTC

Thanks! :)

forevernew March 31 2010, 00:27:31 UTC

As a religious person, it doesn't disappoint me at all! I mean, I'm not a literalist/fundamentalist, so I just get happy when I see things like this because it reminds me that things weren't made up wholesale. It's like the astronomical explanation for the Star of Bethlehem, you know? It happened, and people decided it was holy, and maybe it was or maybe it wasn't, but either way there's proof people weren't just writing fiction. (About that part, at least.)

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savageparrot March 30 2010, 23:17:27 UTC

Setting out from a specific start point and attempting to prove that it is not impossible that something happened is an epic leap from proving that it actually did happen.

I feel "scientists" here needs some quotation marks...

_sockmonk_ March 31 2010, 00:50:44 UTC

To be honest I think they just used that as the title to grab the reader's attention.

ladyofshalott06 March 31 2010, 00:11:53 UTC

Possibly my favorite article on ontd_science so far. :D

dianafedez March 31 2010, 01:20:59 UTC

I think I saw something about this on the history channel

but I agree with what shuraiya said, these thing could have happened and back then the only explanation was God.