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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.
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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? 3 Likes |
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.
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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! |
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. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1314725/As-researchers-prove-Red-Sea-really-parted--How-science-backs-Bibles-best-stories.html
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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 youI read it on a site and I decided to share !what's your deal! |
Re: How Science Backs The Bible's Best Stories by AlfaSeltzer(m): 9:30am On Oct 08, 2013 |
Source: Daily mail. Says it all really. |
Re: How Science Backs The Bible's Best Stories by Delafruita(m): 1:17pm On Oct 08, 2013 |
Alfa Seltzer: Source: Daily mail.really says it all |
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. |
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