RE: For those who want proof of the exodus
January 12, 2016 at 11:45 am
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2016 at 11:46 am by athrock.)
(January 11, 2016 at 5:07 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(January 11, 2016 at 3:09 pm)athrock Wrote: Are you saying that there ought to be the remains of a wooden boat that didn't rot or get turned into firewood by the locals? And because there isn't, we can be certain that the Ark never existed?
Why would you even suspect there was an ark without evidence to suggest it?
You mean other than the fact that an ancient text says there was?
So, what is missing is CORROBORATING evidence that can give us greater confidence of in the initial evidence provided by the text, no?
Quote:Besides which, you don't need the lack of physical remains to be certain that the ark never existed. The puerile impossibility of the whole story manages to sink the boat all by itself.
Oh? Is that how historians work? They begin from a position of hostility toward the text they are examining and assume none of it is true as they begin their research?
Or do men of science pride themselves on being objectively neutral until all the facts are in?