The Miracles of Exodus: A Scientist's Discovery of the Extraordinary Natural Causes of the Biblical Stories Colin Humphreys
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

There is not, and there cannot be, a natural superiority of one over the other. Jan 22, 2013 - The Miracles of Exodus: a scientist's discovery of the extraordinary natural causes of the Biblical stories. I take to be the discovery of the certainty or probability of such propositions or truths, which the mind arrives at by deduction made from such ideas, which it has got by the use of its natural faculties; viz., by sensation or reflection. Are Bible stories fact or moral fable? A scientific investigation of the 10 plagues of Egypt and the parting of Red Sea seeks to determine if the biblical story of Exodus really happened. I have no more reason to believe your miracle story than you have to believe the stories that a Hindu might tell you, or indeed that other Christians might tell you. Dec 3, 2013 - But the whole point of Contra Celsus is to give reasons for belief, pointing to multiple lines of evidence, “including archaeology, miracles, history both secular and Christian, and especially prophecy.” Reason, therefore . Humphreys has written a lively discussion about the Israelite Exodus from Egypt. Feb 26, 2013 - (Humphreys, The Miracles of Exodus: A Scientist's Discovery of the Extraordinary Natural Causes of the Biblical Stories, 210). Dec 24, 2013 - Early archaeologists in that part of the world were typically trained as clerics or theologians, the authors note, and so forced artifacts they found to match with Bible stories. Jun 15, 2009 - I picked up this book recently, mostly out of curiosity, to get a scientists take on the miraculous stories in the biblical account. That all changed The second foundational tale is that of the Exodus, where God chose Moses to liberate 600,000 men from enslavement in Egypt, and they proceeded to wander around the desert for 40 years. May 4, 2014 - 1.41 Reason 40: Near-death experiences; 1.42 Reason 41: Biblical skeptics; 1.43 Reason 42: Einstein quote; 1.44 Reason 43: The tomato thrower; 1.45 Reason 44: Occam's supernatural razor; 1.46 Reason 45: How-vs.-why Hawking quote; 1.47 Reason 46: With God . Follow biblical scholars and scientists in their research to uncover the mysteries quite the opposite in many cases it shows how the stories could have been embellished,borrowed from other stories and how some of these stories could have come about by natural causes.