Atrocities in the Bible

[Pat Mustard]

They were told by God not to look back, and she looked back.  I'm pretty sure it wasn't because God was trying to spare her from sin.

Here's a thing. The human body contains many salts, however presumably the bible passage here is referring to table salt, sodium chloride. If Lot's wife was reduced to salt, in the sense that her salt content was extracted Star Trek style, what would be left is enough salt to make a cube almost five centimetres per side - about seven tablespoons. Hardly a pillar.

Maybe, instead of her natural salt content being extracted, her bodymass was literally converted into sodium chloride? Well, even if that were possible - this is a vengeful god, after all - the energy released in the process would be ridiculous. I'm not a physicist, but even I have a healthy respect for e=mc²; we're talking Hiroshima times about a million here. How did our 'heroes' survive the blast, and how come the bible isn't telling that story? That would kick arse!

Oh wait - it's going to be midichlorians again, isn't it?

10kg of mass being converted into energy is the equivalent of 19,294kt of released energy. That is 1,286 Little Boys or 919 Fat Men, the only two nuclear bombs used in wartime. And given the human body generally contains between seven and ten times ten kg, your estimate is a bit too high.