RE: Objective Morality?
October 30, 2011 at 10:46 am
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2011 at 10:57 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 6, 2011 at 11:03 pm)padraic Wrote: That Moses and the Exodus are almost certainly myth has been widely accepted by Egyptologists for over a decade. However,the issue is not yet resolved.
Not yet resolved? So, lets see. A prophet raised by kings and reunited with his people talks to a god who gives him a plan, he makes an appeal with a staff that turns into a dragon, two groups of sorcerors battle it out, then the victorious group prepares to lead slews of people through the desert on the go word, which is a ghostly apparition executing the firstborn of their enemies, culminating in the same sorceror parting a sea and then collapsing it behind him so that it drowns the pharoahs army, leaving him free to travel to a mountain where a god presents himself, some nastiness ensues, few decades pass, "mana" falls from the sky, and then they set up some mythical jewish kingdom.
Jury's out......hardly.
They'd have a hard time convincing me that a small band of settlers wandered the desert (minus all the miraculous shit) without leaving evidence, since I've mentioned before, that we have evidence of much smaller groups of people traveling the same desert as part of the silk road. It's not as though no ones looked for this evidence either. The search for exodus was one of the most comprehensive, long running, well manned, and well funded arch. projects of all time. Absolutely no one has ever been in a better position to search for this stuff, and no one has a better reason to find this stuff, than the people who searched for it, ultimately being forced to state publicly that they found no such thing. What begin as a fanciful story was given serious consideration, despite the absurdity of the claim, an effort was made, nothing was found. Case closed.
Now if you want to argue that 5 people wandered the desert and passed the tale along that's fine by me (still not handling the silk road bit though are we?), thats not Exodus though is it, and I doubt that you'd be satisfied with such an assessment (speaking directly to Stat on this one).
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