A fight between God and the Devil. God won!

I'm amazed at the TV pictures coming from Chile showing the rescue of the 33 miners who have been trapped 600 metres below ground for the last two months. At the time of writing 11 have been rescued and I hope and pray that all the others will be rescued too.

What I find fascinating is the way the miners and their families all believe that God played a part in the rescue. On Sunday (when the rescue shaft broke through to the miners) family members were interviewed and all started off their comments by saying "We thank God".

And today, one of the miners on reaching the surface said "Down there it was a battle between God and the Devil. God won."

Mario Gomez one of the rescued miners said "God kept me alive."

Naturally, the press have referred to the miners' plight as being "in hell". Well, today once again hell has been conquered.

On BBC TV 1pm news a psychologist was interviewed about the after effects of this on the miners. And even he was talking in terms of heaven and hell.

How refreshing that people are prepared to talk openly abut faith in this way. What a witness. I'd be interested to see the reaction someone like Richard Dawkins would get if he were to suggest to these people that God did not have a hand in this!