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Are Natural DisastersActs of God?
PART ONE
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I find it hard to believe in God when there is so much suffering
Agree: 52%Disagree: 46%
ICM Research, UK, 2004
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Volcanoes
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Silversword, Haleakala Volcano, Maui
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Eyjafjallajökull Volcano, Iceland
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Earthquakes
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Floods
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Snowball Earth?
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Theological issues
Scientific issues
Natural disasters
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Holuhraun, Iceland, Sept 2014
Volcanic eruptions
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Eyjafjallajökull
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100,000 Flights cancelled
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The Haze Famine, 1783-1784 Iceland
Deaths: 76% horses, 50% cows, 79% sheep & 25% of humans
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Saint Pierre, Martinique: Ascension Day 190226,000-36,000 dead
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Saint Pierre, Martinique: Ascension Day 190226,000-36,000 dead
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‘There is nothing in the activity of Pelée that warrants a departure from St. Pierre.’
(Governor’s Commission of Inquiry, 5th May 1902)
‘The side of the volcano was ripped out, and there was hurled straight toward us a solid wall of flame. … Before the volcano burst the landings of St. Pierre were crowded with people. After the explosion not one living being was seen on land.’
(Charles Thompson, one of 25 survivors out of 68 people on the steamship Roraima offshore St. Pierre on 8th May 1902)
Saint Pierre, Martinique: Ascension Day 190226,000-36,000 dead
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Earthquakes
Natural disasters
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Loma Prieta, California, 18th October 1989
Magnitude 7.0
57 died
A Tale of Two Earthquakes
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Haiti, 12th January 2010
Magnitude 7.0
230,000 died
99.98% of deaths
due to poor construction
and endemic corruption
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Turgeau Hospital Digicel Communications
Haiti, new buildings (2009)
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Turkey, 1999 Mag 7.6, 17,000 - 40,000 dead
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Turkey, 1999 Mag 7.6, 17,000 - 40,000 dead
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Tokyo
10-20 m slip
fault area
Caltech-JPL
Japan, 11th March 2011
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Historical earthquakes above magnitude 6.5 before AD 1900 Diamonds show major cities destroyed by earthquakes.
759 BC
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‘The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa—the vision he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel’ (Amos 1:1)
200 years later:
‘On that day …You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him’ (Zechariah 14:4‒5)
759 BC magnitude 7.3 earthquake near Jerusalem
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Are Natural DisastersActs of God?
END OF PART ONE