Really? Then how do you explain this verse?
Luke 2:46 "After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions"
That doesn't answer my question. Where in those verses or any other verse does it say God performed a miracle of hearing in the ears of the crowd?
I already have. They all make perfect sense as foreign languages, even the verse that charismatic teachers quote most to argue for non-human tongues, 1 Cor 14:2 (when it is not taken out of context). If you can't provide a single verse where foreign language doesn't fit then we can only draw our own conclusions.
How anybody can see the disciples speaking a non-human language and the crowd understanding them via a miraculous interpretation in their ears simply from the verse "they heard them speaking in the own language" is completely beyond me (and virtually all commentators including charismatics and pentecostals). But people here can judge for themselves whether it holds any credence.
You're right there. Practicing tongues as the bible describes it would be a hard act to follow, and would soon prove whether it was true or not. Hence we don't see it.
The fact that millions of Christians believe a wrong doctrine doesn't make it right. Millions believe in Arminianism and RC doctrines. Does that make them right?
Success in evangelism does not prove a correct doctrine. Mormons and Jehovahs Witnesses are also successful in evangelism.
You are assuming that what people call tongues today is the same tongues of the New Testament. It is not. Nowhere in scripture is tongues described as a non-human language. Not even the Pentecostalism's most prominent theologian Gordon Fee is willing to affirm that today's 'tongues' is New Testament tongues. The most he is willing to say is that it is something analogous to NT tongues.
Gordon Fee - God’s Empowering Presence, p890
The question as to whether the “speaking in tongues” in contemporary Pentecostal and charismatic communities is the same in kind as that in the Pauline churches is moot – and probably somewhat irrelevant. There is simply no way to know. As an experienced phenomenon, it is analogous to theirs, meaning that it is understood to be a supernatural activity of the Spirit, which function in many of the same ways, and for many of its practitioners has similar value to that described by Paul.
The question as to whether the “speaking in tongues” in contemporary Pentecostal and charismatic communities is the same in kind as that in the Pauline churches is moot – and probably somewhat irrelevant. There is simply no way to know. As an experienced phenomenon, it is analogous to theirs, meaning that it is understood to be a supernatural activity of the Spirit, which function in many of the same ways, and for many of its practitioners has similar value to that described by Paul.
What you and millions of others have experienced in not the gift of tongues as described in the New Testament, but rather a physiological phenomenon of the flesh whereby the human speech organs go into 'autopilot' and produce strings of random syllables. It has been thoroughly studied by professional linguists and anthropologists and found to contain no linguistic structure. The most respected is by Dr. William Samarin of the University of Toronto who did a 10 year study of Pentecostal tongues. Here are some excerpts from his study:
"There is no mystery about glossolalia. Tape recorded samples are easy to obtain and to analyze. They always turn out to be the same things: strings of syllables made up of sounds taken from among all those that the speaker knows, put together more or less haphazardly but which nevertheless emerge as word-like or sentence-like units”
"The speaker controls the rhythm, volume, speed and inflection of his speech so that the sounds emerge as pseudo- language -- in the form of words and sentences. Glossolalia is language-like because the speaker unconsciously wants it to be language-like. Yet in spite of superficial similarities, glossolalia fundamentally is not language.”
"All specimens of glossolalia that have ever been studied have produced no features that would even suggest that they reflect some kind of communicative system.”
“And it has already been established that no special power needs to take over a person's vocal organs; all of us are equipped with everything we need to produce glossolalia”
"Glossolalia is not a supernatural phenomenon....It is similar to many other kinds of speech humans produce in more or less normal circumstances, in more or less normal psychological states. In fact, anybody can produce glossolalia if he is uninhibited and if he discovers what the "trick" is"
"The speaker controls the rhythm, volume, speed and inflection of his speech so that the sounds emerge as pseudo- language -- in the form of words and sentences. Glossolalia is language-like because the speaker unconsciously wants it to be language-like. Yet in spite of superficial similarities, glossolalia fundamentally is not language.”
"All specimens of glossolalia that have ever been studied have produced no features that would even suggest that they reflect some kind of communicative system.”
“And it has already been established that no special power needs to take over a person's vocal organs; all of us are equipped with everything we need to produce glossolalia”
"Glossolalia is not a supernatural phenomenon....It is similar to many other kinds of speech humans produce in more or less normal circumstances, in more or less normal psychological states. In fact, anybody can produce glossolalia if he is uninhibited and if he discovers what the "trick" is"
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, even though I still agree with Marvin on non-cessation of prayer tongues. 
