RE: Christians: Please explain the Exodus
October 2, 2014 at 1:12 am
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2014 at 1:34 am by Aractus.)
(October 1, 2014 at 10:06 pm)professor Wrote: Aractus, peer review?I didn't say it had to be peer-review, I said it had to be academic and gave peer-review as an example. Peer-review is not a conspiracy, journal articles are by far the easiest way to retrieve properly reviewed and verified information.
That is like going to the atheist convention and looking for kudos on creation science.
The system is (the entire system) naturalistic/ evolutionary and supported by governments all over.
Are you on drugs?
Let me give you an example - let's say I give you a book, and the book is called "The Atkins Diet". And I tell you it's a diet book that will help you to loose weight and get in shape, that it's healthy, and that you can trust the author the late Dr. Robert Atkins because he was a doctor and a professional nutritionist.
How would you go about deciding whether my recommendation, or rather, Atkins's, is valid or not?
FYI you do realise do you not that Biblical Scholars including hard-evangelicals like Daniel B Wallace publish in peer-review journals like this one?
Quote: These non professional (well, we can chalk them off right away since they don't head up a national geographic dig somewhere) tourists, found and photoed the gigantic Rock split with hydraulic erosion on the rocks at the base of it, pictures on the video.So what? Did they document it and send someone with the relevant expertise to investigate it? What relevance does it have to the validity of the exodus?
As for Ron Wyatt's "chariot wheels" - it's a forgery. He didn't even document the location, thus no one can independently verify his claim. If he actually found chariot wheels in the Red Sea he would have no problem going back to the same spot with an interested archaeologist or historian (or for that matter simply publish the location itself), he had no problem dragging professionals along to the Durupınar site. Wyatt was just a YEC crackpot, and his claims have been dismissed by just about everyone, even other YECs. Everyone who has looked at the Red Sea for evidence of the exodus and properly documented their activities has found nothing.
Quote: They found rocks arranged in fences like pens for animals and took pictures which are on the video.Again, so what? That's in Saudi Arabia not in Sinai - where does the Bible say that the wondering Israelites went to that location? It doesn't (for a reference, see this academic article which refutes the claim).
They photo shot the mountain covered in black.
Going by memory- they showed foot mark patterns scratched in rocks in various places.
Also shown were the security fence and guard shack put up by the Saudi authority. (I think that was on the vid, I think there are other vids of them on youtube- again going by memory)
No one is allowed in there, subsequent to the Caldwell's visit years ago.
Wonder why?
I apologize for my short initial post ( I thought the vid would speak better than myself). My mistake. Sorry.
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The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke