Quote From: jazzsmomCould not disagree with you more!!!
There ARE miracles...every single day! All you need to do is look for them...
Do you realize that it is simply a miracle that the sun rises at all? That there is life on earth? That you can even have the ability to think and feel and analyze? Let a snow flake fall onto your arm and look closely at it.
Maybe you can explain it all away scientifically...of how the ice particles formed, how it came to fall right there on your arm and at just that moment.....but explain to me how there was water on this planet in the first place? Explain to me how, more than likely, the water that it took to form that snowflake was probably the same water that ran down the Nile in Egypt...or under a surfboard in Hawaii....
"The cemeteries are full of people who left the living praying for some sort of miracle...."
To that, I say....the cemeteries are simply full of PEOPLE....period. And there are souls who left this world happy and those who left sad...there are those who lived their lives to the fullest and those who filled their moments with cynicism.... Which were the better lives?
It sounds to me as you have already placed your own soul into the grave by choosing to no longer believe....and that is sad. Somehow you have lost that childlike innocence....some awful event maybe that took it all away....
Lives ARE improved by belief in miracles. And there is scientific and medical evidence that this is so... Those who believe live longer and fuller lives....
Here is a miracle you can sink your teeth in.... It is your RIGHT to believe whatever you believe...but the bottom line is that you DO believe in something....your own freedom of choice. So where did that reasoning that you express come from? After all, you are just a bunch of atoms, clumped all together...you should have no thoughts, no reasoning, no nothing....you should not even be able to communicate...
But you do. Because, you see....YOU are a miracle. If you believe in yourself, then you, too, are believing in a miracle....
More power to you....
You ask many questions, so I thought I'd like to answer at lest one. You wondered where the Earth's water came from. Well, it turns out that water is one of the most common substances in our Solar System. In fact, there are two, perhaps three moons of Jupiter alone (Ganymede, Europa and Callisto), each with more water than on our planet. Many astronomers believe that if our planet didn't have much water when it was formed in the first place, a collision with just one Ganymede-type object, or many smaller comet-type objects (comets are made of mostly water ice and rock) could have easily provided the Earth with its water. And, as for you and I drinking the same water molecules that once flowed down the Nile, the Congo or even the Amazon, this all has to do with the water cycle. Water evaporates at one place, travels some distance as water vapor -- thanks to wind and weather patterns -- and condenses and falls as rain or snow in another. No miracles there.My point is this. Before immediately ascribing things to God, or His miracles, go to the library look it up in an encyclopedia. Belief in the supernatural can easly get out of hand and become a dangerous thing. In the Dark Ages, millions (yes, millions) of women were put to death because they were accused of being witches. The same thing happened, as you know, in Colonial America, on a smaller scale.
Can science explain everything? No, of course not. It never will. But just because there are things we can't explain, doesn't mean they're caused by supernatural forces. At one time, thunder and lightning were attributed to the gods; now we have a rational explanation for these phenomena (trust me on this).
