(December 22, 2015 at 5:18 pm)athrock Wrote:(December 20, 2015 at 12:12 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: We're still waiting on confirmation of God's existence. Debating minutia and folderol that He supposedly was involved in 13,699,996,300 years after the Big Bang is putting the cart before the horse.
This is bad logic, vorlon13.
If, and I say if, there is some archaeological proof that the Jews did leave Egypt and wander around in the desert for 40 years, then that would be a tremendous feather in the cap of those who believe that the Bible is true.
IOW, all that "minutia and folderol" would actually BE evidence that God exists...at least in part.
And, truth be told, archaeology has tended to favor the bible thumpers over the years.
Read he Book "Unearthing the Bible" by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, both renown archaeologists.
Just for a starter, they show that the archaeological evidence points to
'an archaeological analysis of the patriarchal, conquest, judges, and United Monarchy narratives [shows] that while there is no compelling archaeological evidence for any of them, there is clear archaeological evidence that places the stories themselves in a late 7th-century BCE context
But the consensus of the vast majority of archaeologists is that: there were never any Hebrews in Egypt at any great numbers, that the Hebrews rose from the Canaans and did not come form another land.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
