Mark:

From what I can see, there really isn't anything remaining. You answered the way you did and pretty much left therein nothing more to say. :)

Therefore, I think that the thread is pretty much exhausted... It started out with how a Messy-antic "rabbi" lied and pretty much tried to sell us a bill of goods which the Jewish people via the commandments of G-d can pretty much stamp "NO SALE!" on it, which segued into a blather-fest about dr. Brown (may my stomach be settled) and then this hyperbole about miracles being some sort of definitive proof of the veracity of a religion. We've been shown via G-d's Torah that miracles really don't prove a darned thing (even if they are 'substantiated'), we're simply not to follow them (or the religions that push them as "proof of truth").

What's more, we've seen in a most ironic fashion that religions who themselves see themselves in some sort of competition with Judaism always insist they have the miracles par excellence. These people are the clerics or missionaries or the Jeesus pushers who claim their religion to either be a "fulfillment' of what Judaism was/is to be, or worse, a replacement of Judaism altogether, yet nonetheless, want copyrights to the Book. And certainly these pushers are forced, out of some rabid necessity, to reference miracles as some sort of definitive proof because theologically, their polemic claims can easily be refuted by a simple reading of the Tanakh in context, often without any use of the commentaries. With their theology pretty much in tatters as it RELATES to Judaism, these religions trump alleged miracles as some sort of salvo as proof of their veracity, but even then, these miracles have been systematically refuted over the years. So we're pretty much back to square one with an irony concerning the Torah and a "I told you so!" as to why we aren't and should never be miracle-chasers.

So all matters have been resolved as they relate to this thread. I think we can safely move on.