Christopher Hitchens destroys the claims of biblical miracles in less than 3 1/2 minutes.
"I'll grant you that it would be possible to track the pregnancy of the woman Mary, who's mentioned about three times in the Bible. And to show that there was no male intervention in her life at all. But yet she delivered herself of a healthy baby boy. I don't say that's impossible. Parthenogenesis is not completely unthinkable, but it does not prove that his paternity is divine. And it wouldn't prove that any of his moral teachings were thereby correct.
"Nor if I was to see him executed one day and see him walking the streets the next, would that show that his father was God, or his mother was a virgin, or that his teachings were true, especially given the commonplace nature of resurrection at that time and place. After all, Lazarus was raised, never said a word about it. The daughter of Jairus was raised, didn't say a thing about what she'd been through. And the gospels tell us that at the time of the crucifixion all the graves in Jerusalem opened and their occupants wandered around the streets to greet people. So it seems that the resurrection was something of a banality at the time. Not all of those people clearly were divinely conceived.
"So I'll give you all the miracles and you'll still be left exactly where you are now: holding an empty sack." ~ Christopher Hitchens
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