I just watched what a lot of people think is a funny video of two anti-religious whiners making fun of the manna in the desert. Their first problem is that they weren't there. They cannot go back and collect evidence to analyze or say it didn't happen. I have seen articles explaining that it was actually a certain type of plant that grew in that region. To me, however, it certainly could have been a miracle. I can't say because I wasn't there, either. What is a miracle? It is something that needs no natural reason to happen. Sometimes it can be a natural event that wasn't expected. However, the Bible has various types of stories. There are events that happened before the time of Abraham that could have been stories designed to teach the next generation about life, called parables by Jesus, and which he also used. There are events that really happened, mostly in the time of Abraham onward. There are also events that frankly just happened which people considered to be miracles but weren't.
I did not see anything funny about the video. It is nothing but another step in the long ladder away from God into the huge hole of disbelief. Our society has been told how wonderful organized science is for so long that they tend to lean toward its anti-religious doctrine. Organized science preys on the ignorant, that is, those less educated and we-can't-think-for-ourselves types, whether indoctrinated in college or on their TV. People are giving up their belief because they think the scientists are so incredibly smarter with their complicated calculations of the age of the universe and how it began, of which, of course, they have no idea, either.
Science has become very unscientific. It is now a theology and those who question its tenets are frowned upon and sometimes cast out, what the Church calls excommunicated.
The folks who were making fun of the manna were not there. They cannot say it didn't happen yet they are making fun of those who believe it by explaining how illogical it was. Here's a real fact. You can make fun of God, too, and explain how illogical He is and explain how silly it is to believe in God. You can tell me that there is no reason to believe in Him anymore because science has demonstrated that God is unnecessary. Sorry, I look way beyond your findings. You cannot say whether or not there is a God using science. He is not something that can be analyzed. He created the universe and is not subject to its laws (your thinking is subject to its laws, though). The universe began somehow and all the organized scientists can only tell us that for eons nothing happened, then suddenly something did for absolutely no reason. Gee, could this be the part where your excluded God comes in? Was He the reason something happened? And, please, don't start with your where-did-God-come-from nonsense. Solve the Big Bang problem, then get back to me.
