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Permalink Reply by Prog Rock Girl on October 13, 2010 at 6:51pm

That's for sure. God keeps taking the credit for other people's work!

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Permalink Reply by Jim DePaulo on October 13, 2010 at 8:06pm

The most disappointing aspect of what was an amazing rescue is the constant gratitude being afforded to god - not so much by the rescued miners, which is to be expected given the culture, but by the news reporters making a point of it every time one of the miners come up. The effort, invention and committment of the rescuers, the scientists, engineers and government agencies from all over the planet is what should be applauded not the non-effort by a non-entity.
A better effort by the "all mighty" would have been to prevent the cave in in the first place - but then he/she/it would have missed all that publicity.

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Permalink Reply by §kürrý on October 13, 2010 at 8:10pm

My thoughts exactly.

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Nicole on October 13, 2010 at 9:40pm

I still can't believe that three preachers from three different faiths have the gall to think it's their power of prayer that made a difference. What egotism.

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Permalink Reply by §kürrý on October 13, 2010 at 10:05pm

Prayer is more powerful than action....?

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Permalink Reply by Abnormal on October 14, 2010 at 12:23pm

Thank God for those crafty engineers.

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Permalink Reply by Pat on October 14, 2010 at 12:46pm

When god caused the mine to collapse, he blew it by allowing 33 miners to live through it. Now that humans rescued them, I guess he feels he the need to take credit for something.

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Permalink Reply by Jim DePaulo on October 14, 2010 at 6:01pm

When god caused the mine to collapse,
Do you mean those scientists, engineers and rescue workers were defying the will of god? Imagine the hubris of those people - they will probably burn in hell.

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Permalink Reply by Louis on October 15, 2010 at 2:02am

While they're busy thanking god, I'm shocked and appalled that they haven't also thanked the Earth for not closing in a little more.

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Permalink Reply by Zero_6ix on October 15, 2010 at 4:35pm

I raged everytime I heard the disney-esque anecdote about there being a 34th miner, a "higher power" from the PC folks at ABC. Then they smile knowingly at the camera, like some invisible stalker was keeping everything cool downstairs. Never mind the foreman, who did his job of corraling 32 desperate people into keeping it together, rationing out food and the like. Then the monumental task of drilling down.

Was the 34th miner starved? Or did he tunnel up while the rescue team tunneled down?

Or did they eat him like a soccer team would?

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Permalink Reply by Ian Fraser Montrose on October 17, 2010 at 7:46am

Those miners were fortunate they worked in Chile, because US miners are not given the same safety devices (safe rooms) that many other countries have. Just look back to April when 25 miners died in a West Virginia coal mine. You did not read the magic much over used "M" word when latter happened. Miracles only occur when gawd wants good press.

Breakthroughs in science which have helped mining and numerous other technologies never received much praise as that was saved for the invisible stalker. Most media sources were quick to invoke anything but empirical evidence as a reason for the people surviving.

I am pleased there was a positive outcome which can be attributed to improved safety measures and new mining technologies. There will be more advances in this industry as long as people can get rich removing minerals which developed as the earth did over the last 4.5 billion years.

However some folks would want us to believe these resources were buried within our planet during the last 6000 years.

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