The problem that you're going to have with scientists is that you'll need to to provide convincing evidence that a historical event must have been due to God, at least at the level of more likely than not. Probably that means that you'll need to show that your chosen historical event (a) actually occurred in the way you claim it did, and (b) could not have come about by natural means. It's a high hurdle, but extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.
It is a working hypothesis in process. Prophecy might be able to pull that off. What do you think?
Only if God is not affecting physical things in the natural world, which pretty much rules out the sort of Gods people tend to worship. For instance, if God answers prayers by making physical changes in the world, then science will be able to detect those changes, and they will thus be proxy evidence for God's existence. But you know what? Studies of the efficacy of prayer have been carried out by scientists, and the results have been no better than placebo. That doesn't mean God doesn't exist, of course. It just means that he doesn't seem to be answering prayers - at least not in any way that skews the usual statistics of, for example, recovery from fatal illnesses, as far as we can tell.
My Dad was healed by God through prayer.
What strikes me as strange is that this All Powerful God of yours is so keen to hide himself away from his Creation. Surely, if he was so keen for us all to Believe in Him, he could come right out and convince us fairly easily that he is real. Why doesn't he do that, do you think? Why does he rely on us drawing dubious inferences from the existence of split rocks in Arabia, instead?
God has revealed Himself in many ways, to millions of people, and is, of course, still doing so today.
And there's scholarly consensus that this real mountain is undoubtedly the location of the acts of the Abrahamic God that you speak of, is there? Why haven't we seen headline news proclaiming that Proof of God has been found at last? Why haven't all the Buddhists converted to Judaism in the face of this marvellous convincing evidence?
More Bible Scholars are coming around to this viewpoint all the time. It takes time, because no one wants to make a mistake on this and end up with egg on their face.
You know, I've seen lots of split rocks in my time. It has occurred to me that - just maybe - rocks can be split by natural processes. But no, that can't be right. Only God could split a rock!
Yes, of course natural processes can do these kinds of things. It needs to be studied more. Certainly scientists could find out where the water originated from. Right? There should be a break of some kind below the Split in the Rock. Which allowed pressurized water to escape from an underground reservoir over the length of time it would take to create all of the erosion there. If an underground reservoir was found, that could indicate natural processes were involved. Whether or not God broke the Rock in half to release the pressure, would be another matter. It needs to be studied more by trained and experienced scientists who specialize in these things.
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