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Old 23-01-2004, 18:44   #61
Graham
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Re: moses 'parting of the waves' a myth

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Originally Posted by towny
Don't you think there are rather too many coincidences for this to be a credible explanation? Floods, seas parting and crashing in again, plagues, cites destroyed, entire armies raised from the dead, a virgin gives birth to a baby ... the list is endless. Eventually, the cries of 'coincidence!', 'natural causes!' or 'it never happened!' really do start to sound tired.
Alternatively, from a slightly more sceptical point of view, all these claims of miracles stretch credibility further and further until occam's razor doesn't even need to be very sharp...