For those who want proof of the exodus

[athrock]

Because not only have I "watched the movie" I wrote 1/2 of it.

That would actually explain the generally piss-poor quality of the effort.  Much glitz - little hard fact.

Allow me to remind you of what your fucking movie is all about, drip-shit.  The first half consists of Mahoney being steadily being rebuffed by all those nasty Egyptologists and archaeologists telling him his fucking bible is a pile of shit.  Depressed, he retreats to his home to contemplate how his cherished fairy tales could be saved and resolves to take another trip to the region to get his bible bullshit re-inflated only to be smacked down by reality once again.

It is not until he brings in Rohl on his white fucking horse and drinks all the Kool-Aid that he finds someone will tell him what he desperately wants to hear.  YES...IT"S TWUE, IT'S TWUE (think Madeleine Kahn in Blazing Saddles) and all we have to do is re-write all of ancient history so we can shoe horn the fucking bible in.

Your bible is not worth that much effort drippy.  You are so easily fooled.

Actually, Minimalist, what I observed while viewing the film is that all of the Egyptologists and Archaeologists interviewed were unwilling to consider any evidence that contradicted what they have already accepted as incontrovertible fact. "Oh, no, you poor fool...those could not possibly be the Hebrews of the Exodus...why, the artifacts are much too early for them. <sniff>" 

IOW, Mahoney MUST be (has to be) wrong because the experts already know/believe other things to be true, and those things don't line up with what Mahoney was considering.

Now, they MIGHT be correct, and Mahoney MIGHT be wrong. Or it could be the other way around. Unfortunately for scientists like this, every so often, someone comes along with an idea that fits the evidence a little more closely than the old theory does. Then, the cart has to be righted and the apples picked up.

So, you'll suck down the last drops of Kool-Aid from Richard Carrier (despite the evidence and expert opinions that Jesus really did exist) and then turn right around and deny Drich the opportunity to consider a new theory about the Exodus because YOUR experts deny that an Exodus ever occurred.

Presuppositions are powerful things, aren't they?