We have all read of the 10 plagues that befell eygpt, but rather than god, can science provide us an answers.

The first one-"a river of blood", well rather than blood, just having the river's water turn red. Ok, what can do this, what if it had a toxic algal bloom of Physteria. This is red in color and will kill all the fish-takes oxygen out of the water and potions the ones left.

This leads us to the plague of frogs. With no or little fish in the river, the was no one to eat the tadpoles, so there would be a massive amount of frogs.

Before the frogs could leave the water, the would have had a lethal dose of the allege in them, this would cause them to die off very fast.

Because the frogs were dead, there were little predators to eat the insects-this could account for the plague of lice and flies.

Boils on cattle and man-this could have been a sickness carried by the masses of flies that lived-dirty little things.

A massive hailstorm could have destroyed the crops.

Locus-well, that plague has been around for a long time and still hits today.

A massive sandstorm-it happens in the desert, enough so to have a name cashimh.

As for the first born, all the left grain would have been harvest wet and with locus droppings and stored in the heat-perfect growing conditions for bacteria. Realizing the "upper" classes in egypt ate first and the first born were given extra servings-being the most important. They would have gotten the grain on the top-most likely to have the most bacteria present.


There are other things we have proven scientifically.

We have discovered a bush which produces methane. Now if someone walking along kicked a rock and it hit another rock and sparked-we have our burning bush.

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I fear for your immortal soul
try using Human nature to explain the bible
It works a whole lot better

non christians dont respect the bible much, esp. in historical context bar a few exceptions.

I don't think all them plagues actually happened

looks like somebody watched,"revelations"the other night on nbc!there are things that can be explained though,moses seeing the burning bush could be the result of eating fermented fruit or bread could'nt it?the destruction of saddam and gommorah could have been a volcanic eruption.maybe you could explain jesus
rising from the dead as he was never really dead at all.who knows?we all have different beliefs,however anything is possible!

Okay just the once then.
The old testament is about 75 % abridged versions of sumerian epics, and about 25% direct from judaism. No offense to any kosher posters out there but they did use to make it up as they went along.
Depending on which version you read the number of plagues gradually rises to encompass every thing in egypt.

Actually I recorded the program, but have not had a chance to watch.

To those who seemed offend by my theories, please understand i meant no offence to you or your beliefs. I don't agree with what and how you think, so I look for what I consider reasonable explanations to events accredited to God.

I have though for a majority of my life, if there is an all mighty God and it is important that I know this, evidence to that fact would have been provided to me. To be honest, I am not sure what it would take to prove it to me. You see, I don't have faith-blind belief in something i cannot prove.

Chrisitianity is a sticky subject
of course if they didn't first claim that their's was the one true god and a god of mercy then go on and expalin how he tried to kill ever living thing on earth cos he was disappointed by his creation then it'd be a little easier to swallow.
when you look into it a little deeper you can see that they stole the idea of the flood in its entirety from sumerian myths and legends
They just changed a few names to avoid any copyright infringement is all
One christian once asked me what it would take to convince me of God's existence
I replied having his home adress and telephone number might be a good start.
Even the pope doesn't have that and he's supposed to be chief executive.
God's a silent partner and he hasn't checked in at the office for three thousand years
If he was an employee of mine he'd be down a the job centre

sum christian users on Um will consider that a starting point of a debate.

they have their own forum just for that purpose
luckily.