Quote:What I was saying in the previous post is that people on both sides of the debate often use circular reasoning,
When biblical claims about specific events and/or places are examined they are almost invariably determined to be false. There is nothing circular about that. The bible is a dead end.
For example: "joshua" is supposed to have obliterated the town of Ai during his alleged "conquest" which most nutjobs place in the Late Bronze Age. However, excavation at Ai has shown that the city was abandoned c 2100 BC and not re-settled until the Iron Age. Since the people who wrote this shit down were living well after the Iron Age began they did not know that Ai did not exist. Same goes for Jericho. As archaeologist, Bill Dever quipped "the real miracle of joshua is that he destroyed a city which wasn't even there!"
