RE: God Yahweh Allah was a volcano.
July 29, 2011 at 7:13 pm
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2011 at 7:17 pm by Minimalist.)
Quote:The ten plagues of Egypt happening around the time of the Santorini volcanic eruption and being documented in the Bible is pretty good proof of them having been in Egypt around 1500 BC.
Santorini exploded c 1625 BC.
Dendrochronology:
http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/96...ology.html
Quote:Archaeologists had long believed the Thera eruption had occurred around 1500 B.C., but more recent studies have strongly suggested the eruption occurred earlier, in 1628 B.C.
C14 dating:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2142040/posts
Quote:Two olive branches buried by a Minoan-era eruption of the volcano on the island of Thera (modern-day Santorini) have enabled precise radiocarbon dating of the catastrophe to 1613 BC, with an error margin of plus or minus 10 years, according to two researchers who presented conclusions of their previously published research during an event on Tuesday at the Danish Archaeological Institute of Athens.
Ice core study
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1...i_5169204/
Quote:In the Aug. 6 NATURE, Danish researchers present the results of yet another method, which produced dates slightly older than the radiocarbon studies. C.U. Hammer at the University of Copenhagen and colleagues searched for acidity peaks in South Greenland ice cores. They found one layer containing high levels of sulfuric acid (which is formed from volcanic sulfur dioxide), and by counting seasonal variations in snow deposits, they conclude that Thera erupted in 1645 B.C.* This citation omits the +/- figure customarily given as in this citation from the Thera Foundation.org { The revised Danish ice-core dates: 1645 ± 20 BC } for reasons known only to the web site author.
Three independent dating methods all coming within a hair's breadth of each other is about as good as it gets and sure as shit beats the bleating of a useless old book which was, at the earliest, begun in the late 7th century BC and not finalized until the modern era and for which archaeology can find no corroborating evidence.
Quote:Lack of physical evidence is not proof of non-existence.
Proof? No. But lack of evidence is most assuredly "evidence" of non-existence. Look up Bertram Russell's "Teapot" before you answer.