If you took an X-Ray of this story, you will find God is the very skeleton of it. Take Him out and the whole thing collapses in a heap. The maintenance of the population in the desert is a miracle, therefore I would not offer a naturalistic explanation
Well, if miricles are allowed then there is not discussion at all. Most of this board is discussion "scientific" creationism.
There are at least a couple of reasons why I'm not interested once miracles are introduced
1) You're in your church and out of the schools.
2) It would be like having a 18th century dual with someone equipped with a machine gun. All discussions would end with "it was a miracle" it doesn't matter how much evidence you have or how good you logic is. The no miracle side would always be wrong,every single time.