RE: Creation/evolution3
January 26, 2015 at 4:21 pm
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2015 at 4:22 pm by Tonus.)
(January 26, 2015 at 12:31 pm)Drich Wrote: but again when these men died all of their stuff was left, that meant hundreds if not thousands if not ten thousands of men all of whole would have been armed and armored as well as personal effects, and whatever equipement they were responsible for.But in relative terms we are still talking a very small number of people during a very brief period of time. The difference in both is staggering.
Drich Wrote:Verses a completely different situation requiring the use, reuse and re- reuse of any and everything the jews brought with them till there was nothing left.And again we are talking about potentially millions of people staying in a region for decades. The level of fastidiousness required to leave no traces is simply not reasonable.
Drich Wrote:So we are comparing one large group who was just sheding material by the ton, verses another group who would have used everything (very little unusable garbage) till nothing was left/or it was burned to fuel a fire.I don't think anyone knows the rate at which Alexander's army was leaving things behind, but we're talking about 30,000 men (and 12,000 casualties) moving as quick as they can for two months, versus possibly more than two million people (with almost that many casualties) roaming a region for almost forty years. You can't just chalk that up to good housekeeping.
Drich Wrote:Yes! These people stayed in one place for generations upon generations.Right- time is a factor that has to be considered.
Drich Wrote:who lived in perminate/semi perminate structures.Right- distance traveled (or not traveled) has to be considered.
Drich Wrote:again a short trek that involved the loss of an entire army, tons of the supplies/wepons of war they carried. 3000 years AFTER Moses.The loss of about half of his army, though even losing a full army and its supplies still isn't anywhere near the effect of hundreds of thousands of people roaming an area for decades. No settlements. No bones. No campfires. No altars. No pottery. Not even a bit of "Yahweh wuz here" graffiti etched into a clay tablet. That's just not possible.
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