Quote:The events of the exodus could be down to the eruption of the super volcanoe at Santorini.
Actually, no. The sequence of events is totally wrong.
In the bullshit story, god fucks over Egypt with a whole series of "plagues" and then frees the jews who run off into the desert. Then he changes his mind ( because god is a total fucking prick) and goes charging after them only to be drowned by the tsunami caused by the eruption.
In the case of Santorini geologists have tracked the ash cloud and the bulk of it moved north east into Asia Minor. The amount of volcanic ash in Egypt is miniscule by comparison which means that there would not have been a sufficient impact on the land to produce these dire plagues. Secondly, the Santorini tsunami is generally attributed to caldera collapse which would have come at the end of the eruption but still long before the bulk of the ash settled on the land...even if the ash had been aimed in the right direction.
Pharoah and his army would have had to be chasing jews before they let them go and who would have had to have disregarded "god's" warning not to take the northern route in the first place!
Sorry, guys. There is no saving this particular turd from the bible.
