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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Science & Religion
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Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 10:30:17 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 11 10:30:17 1984
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> > In article <20980005@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) writes:
> > 
> > >If a religion's benefits are not reproducible, that religion is a fraud.
> > >You can only waste your time through membership.
> > 
> > I suppose this means that Judaism is a fraud, because God chose to part the
> > Sea of Reeds only once.  It seems rather presumptious to me to claim that
> > God has to produce miracles on demand-- which is all Tim's statement amounts
> > to.  Since God is omnipotent, there is no reason to expect him to be bound
> > to  some sort of rule which can be modelled scientifically.  I expect God
> > to do lots of unreproducible things, unreproducible in the sense that we
> > can't set up the proper situation and expect the miracle to be repeated.
> > 
> > Charley Wingate    umcp-cs!mangoe
> 
> In Judaism, the parting of the sea of reeds is typically considered a
> metaphor with multiple levels of meaning, which may or may not correspond to
> a historical event.
> [Tim Maroney]

Well, I know I'm not the greatest Jewish scholar in the world (esp.
since not Jewish), but I've never read any Judaic literature suggesting
something like this.  Documentation?
-- 
Paul DuBois		{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois

"I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live:  I will sing
praise to my God while I have my being."
					Psalm 104:33