Opening of Red Sea - seismic tsunami
Plagues - emission of poisonous gases
Fire & thunder & skaking on mountain - Volcano & Earthquake
Water from rock - undeground geyser
Pillar of fire - atmospheric electrical phenomenon
2007-03-23 07:39:11 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
A number of the plagues are a bit easier:
Locusts, gnats and flies, cattle disease, red-tide
and some nasty childhood virus.
Darkness could have been a total eclipse.
none of these, of course, being a diety intervention. But a good marketeer that represented the enslaved people could come to the king and say- 'see that awful thing that happened to you- that was because of my god..."
2007-03-23 07:58:27 · answer #1 · answered by Morey000 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You are coming at it from the wrong direction. You are blindly assuming that all of the events depicted in the bible happened. What you would need to do it find research on the geologic activity in the Egypt region during that time and then see if you can find evidence of the events that you mention. Then tie this evidence back to the story.
You cannot look at the bible and see the events in Exodus and then claim that something geological caused them, unless you have evidence to show that these geologic events happened during the time of Exodus and that they happened in an area relevant to Exodus.
2007-03-23 14:45:21 · answer #2 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think there are plenty of ways to connect the bible and science, and it's not weird at all. I think that most things in the bible could be explained scientifically, if we knew enough about science, because God seems like a pretty scientifically minded being. Now about Exodus, you know this period is pretty much in the same period we're in now. I think people estimate the Exodus to have happened about 4,000 years ago... out of a 4.3 billion year history. It's like it happened two seconds ago... but we still live in a very geologically active period. But it's no doubt that people then saw these things because we still see them now- most of us don't think of them as miracles now- unless they worked as a miracle in our favor- but I'm sure they weren't taken as miracles by everyone that saw them then either- only by those who needed them.
2007-03-24 02:07:05 · answer #3 · answered by locusfire 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, the parting of the Red Sea and the plagues were miracles.
To dismiss the possibility of miracles as unscientific is to equate science with materialism/naturalism.
In fact science means knowledge.
It is unscientific to dismiss the possibility that God intervened in a miraculous way.
2007-03-23 15:09:34 · answer #4 · answered by a Real Truthseeker 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Please do not relate the Bible to science. It's apples and oranges you're dealing with.
2007-03-23 14:49:06 · answer #5 · answered by Kelly M 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋