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The problem with that is, with science, true science, you have to support assertions with hard empiric evidence. Just saying they have 'plausible SCIENTIFIC explanations' isn't necessarily science.
There is no real scientific evidence to support any of the things you've mentioned. If you merely re-interpret the plagues of Egypt and the parting of the "Red Sea" into some adaptations of natural events, at best you simply have inaccurate diary notes, not a Bible.
There is no such evidence of Sodom and Gomorrah , parting of the Red Sea or the Garden of Eden. They are tales in a story book.
On that level you do realize the story of Goldilocks could be shown to have 'plausible SCIENTIFIC explanations'. ? Just find three porridge bowls from around the time of the tale in an archeological dig and, hey presto.
If you understand science at all, you understand not to dutifully believe anything.
If you choose to accept evidence that isn't there and deny evidence that is there , you dutifully believe in fantasy.
The thing with something from nothing theory , it is based on science itself, not on a fantastical story, and more compellingly in view of its suggestion, doesn't contravene the laws of physics.
There is no dutiful belief required. Science based knowledge and understanding will verify, or something from nothing will remain evidentially possible but scientifically inconclusive.
Whereas things like God just donât get to be scientific at all.
Translation: stu only believes what bolsters his preconceived notions and ignores all else.