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Originally Posted by Ezekiel Bathfire
great floods
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Another sort of reverse miracle could be cited here as an example of things happening for a reason. I'll only go back to the Roman Empire but I'd be confident the ancient Egyptians knew this too, living along the Nile as they did and relying on it for silt and irrigation; they could also measure things accurately. The Romans are long enough ago at 2,000 years and their aqueducts sufficient evidence for understanding the concept of
level. And what could be more conspicuously level than a flood plain? Essentially there are two locations in a diagram I found. This sort of stuff is probably taught to 8 or 9 year olds. And not considering the Egyptians for now, although they would also have understood, surely any Roman could distinguish these locations. One is a good place to build a house. One is a place where, if you build, when the river swells WOOSH! you'll be washed away. And probably drown, especially at night. Which location is which? 1? Or 2?
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The reverse miracle is that anyone would get planning approval to build on a floodplain to start with. And when the rain comes, perfectly normal rain according to seasonal variations and on record (as if the floodplain were not a record itself) o woe everyone's surprised there's a flood. Sometimes it's suggested that the planning department or one of its officials was demon possessed. That is certain to be the case in heathen lands where they build right on the beach in plain view of Krakatoa knowing what happened last time; apart from Christian missionaries everyone is likely to be claimed by multiple demons II Corinthians 4:3-4 but for city planning regulations inflicting evil on floodplains, as Ezekiel Bathfire pointed out, we needn't look beyond Amos 3:6b. It's called Occam's razor.