An unorthodox belief in God.

[Confused Ape]

I think it's more of an educated guess by what we know of consciousness, that he is saying it cannot emerge from non-consciousness.

So how does archaeological evidence that Herod the Great built palace-fortresses prove that?

http://www.bible-archaeology.info/bible_...ericho.htm

Jericho - Bronze Age

Archaeological evidence indicates that in the latter half of the Middle Bronze Age (MBE, c. 1700 BCE) the city enjoyed some prosperity, its walls having been strengthened and expanded.[23] The MBE period and following centuries have engendered controversy due to their importance in the Biblical story of conquest of the "promised land" by the Israelites, during which the walls of the city are supposed to have collapsed, allowing the Israelites led by Joshua to enter the town. John Garstang, who excavated in the 1930s, announced that he had found fallen walls dating to the time of the biblical Battle of Jericho.[2] However, Garstang later revised the destruction to a much earlier period.[24] Kathleen Kenyon dated the destruction of the walled city to the middle of the 16th century (c. 1550 BCE), too early to match the Bible story, on the basis of her excavations in the early 1950s.[25] The same conclusion, based on an analysis of all the excavation findings, was reached by Piotr Bienkowski.[26] Kenyon's dating was challenged by Bryant Wood in 1990, largely on the argument that Kenyon had misinterpreted the ceramic evidence.[27] William Dever accused Wood of deceiving the public, while Bienkowski accused Wood of multiple errors, which Wood strenuously denied.[28][29][30] In 1995, Bruins and var der Plicht announced radiocarbon dating of the city destruction to between 1617 and 1530 BCE, agreeing with Kenyon.[31]

After the destruction of the city, occupation was minor until about the 11th century.[24]

Yes, it existed and walls fell down but it had nothing to do with Joshua.