how are bridges built in water?
People define beating low odds as a miracle, but low odds means it can and will happenA Godly miracles would be when there are no odds, such as an amputee growing their limb backNo such miracles have ever occurred.
1A hole is made in the water (cofferdam) with a steel or concrete wall and pumps and people and cranes work inside the hole to get down to bed rock and build the support back upShallower wateror 2A heavy pipe/tube (casement) is driven down into the bottom from barges on the surface and compressed air is used to both drive the water out and keep it outMen go in through air locks and work in the high pressure air to remove the material at the bottom and lower the edge of the casementBecause of the high pressure, each worker has to be slowly decompressed to avoid air bubbles in the blood stream - the bendsor 3In some cases it is possible to do almost everything from the surface, driving piles into the ground and then filling inside the piles with concrete - some kinds of which will set under water.
The headline quotes someoneThat is their opinionSomething improbable is often referred to as a miracleWhen there is a miracle where known physical laws are violated or suspended then you have a real miracleThe level of reasoning exhibited in this question is why theists get the reputation of being dumbNot all are but the vocal ones like you provide so many examples.
Nope, not GodThings fall all the time in this world and people escape death or injuryI was at a place with all sorts of tools and metal objectsA heavy metal ball fell off the counter and I yanked my foot out of the way in the nick of timeGod saved me? No, my quick reflexes did!!! Don't you ever question the existence of God when multiple humans (or for that fact other species) die in an act of Nature or a building collapse.where is God when living beings are in danger or in need of help? Luck, reflexes, first responders (firemen, police, strangers on a street, doctors, nurses) are who are doing the 'saving' If a god exists it must be occupied with a video game big time, because horrific thing happened daily and there is no intervention.
DisagreeThis is not only not proof of god, it is not even evidence for the existence of godIt's not even evidence favoring in that directionIs it a miracle just because New York Times says it's a miracle? Are you saying god made the bridge fall in the first place, or are you saying god made there be no casualtiesOr did god do both? Is that a MIRACLE then, if he put people in danger in the first place and then rescued them? Do you believe that bridges never fall in universes that lack gods, therefore since the bridge fell in this universe, we occupy a universe with a god? You need some criterion to discriminate between universes that possess gods and universes that lack them, to discern which type of universe this isDo you believe that no one EVER dies when bridges fall, or that this is the first bridge that has ever fallen? If not, then would you not expect SOME incidents of bridges falling in universes that lack gods to result in no one dying, by luck? How can that happen if it requires a god? What is a miracle, anyway? Is it just an unlikely event? If I won the lottery, would that be a miracle, would that prove there is a god? Does nobody ever win the lottery in universes that lack gods? Wouldn't that too be extremely unlikely, if no one ever won the lottery? If 20 years went by, with no one winning the powerball lottery, and in that time, 40 billion tickets were sold, with not one winner, would that not be unlikely? In fact, it would be far less likely than the chance of one single ticket winning, for 40 billion sold over 20 years to not winAnd that's why this is not a miracle and it's not evidence for god.
