RE: Creation/evolution3
January 26, 2015 at 1:28 pm
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2015 at 1:32 pm by Davka.)
(January 26, 2015 at 12:37 pm)Drich Wrote:(January 26, 2015 at 12:22 pm)Davka Wrote: They are also nowhere near the Sinai desert, which is a completely different type of desert from the Sahara.
The Sahara is covered in sand dunes, which shift and bury things, as well as sand-blasting everything in the desert whenever a strong wind blows.
The Sinai is not sandy at all. It's hard packed dirt and rocks, with a very thin scattering of plants in the wadis, which are narrow gorges carved in the dirt and stone by occasional flash-floods. Archaeologists have discerned evidence of temporary Bedouin camps in the Sinai that are thousands of years old. These are relatively small camps, but they left a mark on the desert floor that was visible from space thousands of years later.
Yet absolutely zero trace has been found of a group of millions of people (along with their livestock) who supposedly spent 40 years wandering through the Sinai.
Ooops, wrong link.
http://www.geographia.com/egypt/sinai/history.htm
You would think that you would have googled Alexander the great and the Sinia desert before you posted your conclusion.
So again the question still stands where are all the 'earmarks' you called for of the exodus in the sinia, for Alexander, Neoplean, Ramseys ect?
Seriously? You're linking to a grade-school-level article for tourists as 'evidence' of something?
Alexander's army did not spend 40 years in the Sinai, nor did they have millions of people plus herds of animals. Yet they left traces in the desert at their camp near El Qatih.
Exodus supposedly records the movement of over a million people plus all their herds and belongings. Yet not a trace of this passage can be found. Even the folks at Bible History Daily, who have a dog in this fight, find this "curious" -
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Curiously, no Exodus-related archaeological remains have been recovered in the Sinai Peninsula—through which the Israelites must have traveled out of Egypt—dating to the traditional period of the Exodus, around 1200 B.C.E.
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These folks are Biblical Archaeologists. It is their job to try to find connections between what is written in the Bible and what is written in the rocks and dirt and pottery shards. But they cannot find any trace of the Exodus, and they find this "curious."
Most Biblical Archaeologists have given up on the Sinai Peninsula altogether, and are focusing instead on Saudi Arabia, which has the handy added feature of being a place in which archeologists (especially Christian archeologists) are particularly unwelcome. Thus, since they cannot actually visit the area to confirm or falsify their hypotheses, Biblical Archaeologists are free to speculate endlessly about the Arabian Peninsula, even though they admit that the Israelites must have traveled through the Sinai Peninsula on their way out of Egypt.