(January 26, 2015 at 11:21 am)Drich Wrote: Reading forward I noticed you did not answer my request for the Evidence of alexander the great's desert marches?
Here is a historical event that supposedly had taken place in the 3ish century bc, upon which thousands of men died. which meant thousands of peices of armor and wepons, animal remains, and equipment and supplies. all happened 3000 years after the exodus. So again sport where is the evidence for this story?
You are comparing a two-month march by 30,000 men to a 38-year "march" by more than a million people (a lot more, if the men alone numbered 600,000). The account at the link you posted indicates that Alexander's men only stopped infrequently to drink whenever they found water, whereas the Israelites had to have made camp (likely for decades), otherwise their trek across the desert would have been fairly short.
The Wiki entry for Balochistan --the area which Alexander traversed-- shows evidence of the tribes and peoples who lived in the area as far back as 7,000-6,000 BCE. These would have to have been small tribes and villages, not massive groups of hundreds of thousands of men, plus their families and livestock and belongings. It would not be surprising that a relatively short trek through the desert by an army left no trace, but to assume that this means that a nearly forty-year occupation by almost two million people would also leave no trace is, at the least, a stretch.
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