[baudrunner]

Now this is very true, the Earth was a paradise.

I'm not so sure about that. Those innocent writers were envisioning a paradise that existed in their minds, sort of a Utopia. But that story of the bible is, as I've said, allegorical and something like a fable. The conditions of the world at the time of their writing did not resemble paradise. There was disease, parasitic infestation including mites and fleas, no waste management, every urban centre essentially grew around a dung heap. Ancient historians wrote about the Greeks throwing their hairy babies on the city dumps to eliminate that gene and thereby cull their race. The earth's crust is essentially the organic residue of one hundred and fifty million years of dinosaurs stomping their defecation into more defecation, not to mention rotting vegetable matter. Out of this came civilization.

This will be the most monumental event in human history and I am the one. So I proclaim.

Note that this divine intervention was nothing more than humans themselves and their own natural willpower and curiosity to emerge to the forefront.

Good example.

I would like to know how you would explain miraculous medical miracles that doctors routinely document. Do you believe in miracles? Do you believe in the soul?