Are you suggesting that a deity must follow the laws of physics when performing miracles?
If God had the power to flood the earth (not to mention creating it to begin with), why would you then claim that he would follow the laws of physics?
It's an illogical point. No one is claiming the flood was an entirely natural event. The entire claim is that it was an act of God.
You wrote: "If God had the power to flood the earth (not to mention creating it to begin with), why would you then claim that he would follow the laws of physics?
It's an illogical point. No one is claiming the flood was an entirely natural event. The entire claim is that it was an act of God."
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Thank you for making my point.
Noah's Flood is illogical from a theological and moral perspective. If God is so powerful as to create the Universe, surely He could have found a way to punish the bad people without having to kill innocent fetuses in pregnant women, without drowning innocent newborns and toddlers, without wiping out millions of innocent animals that had no stake in the argument, apparently in a fit of pique.
There are many who claim to have supernatural powers--psychics, palm readers, shamans, ... etc. I choose to think there is a natural, observable world that works according to well-established principles and understandings, and I reject the notion you seem to have of a Deity as "cosmic meddler" who constantly changes things on the basis of whim or pique.
My problem is that somebody apparently forgot to tell the Egyptians they were flooded and wiped out 4,000 years ago.