(June 27, 2014 at 9:30 am)ignoramus Wrote: As a historical body of text, has it provided any historical or scientific information which is generally considered "fact" due to the empirical evidence noted in it, which cannot be validated by other writings of the time.
Eg: social migration, spread of ethnicities, topological accuracies, technologies of the period, etc.
Let's take a quick overview of the history recorded in the Bible:
1. 6 Day creation
2. Tower of Babel, languages instantly created.
3. Global flood.
4. Hebrew settlement in Egypt (no evidence for this).
5. Hebrew population grew from 70 to 1.2 million in 4 generations, a figure which only makes sense if every female was constantly pregnant with twins.
6. Exodus, ten plagues (no evidence for this)
7. Wandering the Sinai for 40 years (no evidence for this)
8. The bloody path to the Promised Land (no evidence for this)
9. The glorious Davidic empire (no evidence for this)
10. Fanciful tales about Jesus and the acts of the apostles.
So pretty much it's all either fanciful mythology or dubious, unsupported claims about history.
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