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How Science Backs The Bible's Best Stories by nickz(m): 8:27am On Oct 08, 2013
1.The Resurrection Of Lazarus:

In the New Testament account,
Lazarus was raised from the dead by
Jesus.
In fact, returning from the dead is a
well-documented phenomenon.
Known in medical books as ‘Lazarus
syndrome’, it is the spontaneous
restarting of the heart after failed
attempts at resuscitation.
Its occurrence has been noted by
doctors at least 25 times since 1982.
Its causes are not well understood: one
theory is that the relaxation of pressure after
resuscitation efforts have ended allows the heart to
expand and triggers electrical impulses that cause it
to resume beating.
In 2008 the heart of an American woman, Velma
Thomas, stopped beating three times and she was
clinically brain dead for 17 hours.
Her son had left the hospital to make funeral
arrangements.
But ten minutes after her life-support system was
shut down and doctors were preparing to take her
organs for donation, the 59-year-old woke up.

Re: How Science Backs The Bible's Best Stories by Nobody: 8:37am On Oct 08, 2013
Doesnt this mean that Jesus did not ressurect Lazarus?

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Re: How Science Backs The Bible's Best Stories by nickz(m): 8:38am On Oct 08, 2013
2.The Walls of Jericho:
The Fall of Jericho, as told in Joshua, is one of the
most graphic Old Testament stories. In it, the
Israelites defeat the city of Jericho when they entered
the Promised Land after wandering in the wilderness
for 40 years.
They marched around the city for six days, and on
the seventh day, they encircled the city seven times.
On the seventh round, the priests blew trumpets, the
people shouted, and the walls came tumbling down.
Could it be true?
Excavations in the southern Jordan valley of
Palestine produce tantalising evidence. British
archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon excavated the area in
the Fifties, and found piles of collapsed mud bricks at
the site.
What caused the walls to collapse? The most likely
explanation is an earthquake, as the ancient city is
located on a fault line extending from the Red Sea.

3.The Destruction Of Sodom and Gomorrah:

Did God destroy these two ancient
cities because of the sins of their
inhabitants?
Genesis reports that ‘the Lord rained
on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone
and fire out of the Heaven ...’
Two years ago, an ancient clay tablet
was identified as a witness account of
an asteroid believed to have crushed
Sodom and Gomorrah, cities which
existed between what are now Israel
and Jordan.
The tablet was found in the 19th century by Victorian
explorer Henry Layard in the remains of the library
in the royal place at Nineveh - the ancient capital of
the Assyrian empire, near what is now the city of
Mosul in Iraq.
Its significance remained a mystery until researchers
decoded its symbols and suggested it was a 700BC
copy of notes made by a Sumerian astronomer
observing the asteroid.
Using computers to recreate the night sky thousands
of years ago, scientists have pinpointed his sighting
to shortly before dawn on June 29 in the year
3123BC.

Re: How Science Backs The Bible's Best Stories by nickz(m): 8:40am On Oct 08, 2013
Logicboy03: Doesnt this mean that Jesus did not ressurect Lazarus?
that's what 'they' want us to believe,I'll be posting more! wink
Re: How Science Backs The Bible's Best Stories by turnstoner(m): 8:42am On Oct 08, 2013
Just because a physiological phenomenon is named after a biblical story does it for you
You are too simple minded, my friend, to engage in any serious discussion about the bible and science. I recommend that you read as many threads as possible concerning this topic (the search button will help) before making silly posts.
Re: How Science Backs The Bible's Best Stories by nickz(m): 8:46am On Oct 08, 2013
4.The Burning Bush:
This is a pivotal moment in the Passover story, in
which God speaks to Moses from a burning bush and
tells him: ‘I am come down to deliver [the Israelites]
out of the hand of the Egyptians.’
Scientists believe the bush was either growing over a
natural gas vent, or could have spontaneously
combusted because of local volcanic action.
Norwegian physicist Dag Kristian Dysthe has
studied the subsurface combustion of organic
material in Mali, West Africa, and concludes such
events do happen in the natural world.
As for the voice of God, Hebrew University
psychology professor Benny Shannon proposes that
Moses was taking a local hallucinogenic substance
derived from leaves of the ayahuasca plant found in
the Negev and Sinai deserts.

5.Noah's Flood:
In the book of Genesis, God despairs of
human corruption and decides to flood
the Earth, instructing Noah to build an
ark to save himself, his family and a
pair of each animal species.
Could such a flood actually have
happened?
Researchers have suggested that,
during a warming period in the cycle of
the Earth’s temperature around
5600BC, melting glaciers caused an
onrush of seawater from the Mediterranean.
This cascaded through Turkey’s Straits of Bosporus -
dry land at the time - to the Black Sea, transforming
it from a freshwater lake into a vast saltwater inlet.
In 1997, drawing on archaeological and
anthropological evidence, Colombia University
geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman claimed
that ‘ten cubic miles of water poured through each
day’, and that the deluge continued for at least 300
days.
More than 60,000 square miles of land were flooded,
and the lake’s level rose by hundreds of feet after
merging with the Mediterranean, triggering mass
animal migrations across Europe.
The researchers, whose findings have been backed
up by carbon dating and sonar imaging, claim that
the story of Noah’s flood had its origin in this
cataclysmic event.



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Re: How Science Backs The Bible's Best Stories by nickz(m): 8:49am On Oct 08, 2013
turnstoner: Just because a physiological phenomenon is named after a biblical story does it for you
You are too simple minded, my friend, to engage in any serious discussion about the bible and science. I recommend that you read as many threads as possible concerning this topic (the search button will help) before making silly posts.
I read it on a site and I decided to share !what's your deal! undecided
Re: How Science Backs The Bible's Best Stories by AlfaSeltzer(m): 9:30am On Oct 08, 2013
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Says it all really.
Re: How Science Backs The Bible's Best Stories by Delafruita(m): 1:17pm On Oct 08, 2013
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Says it all really.
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Re: How Science Backs The Bible's Best Stories by Nobody: 1:29pm On Oct 08, 2013
LOL, these examples are just too weak! Please they should try another Expensive LIE. grin grin

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