(January 26, 2015 at 5:41 pm)Drich Wrote: Again I have introduced a metric that none of you want to consider. When the army's enter the deserts they have larger numbers than when they leave. in the case of the older army's a sizable reduction in numbers. This means vast amounts of equipment are left. where as with the Jews Everything was used up till nothing was left.Repeating this doesn't change the fact that the differences are enormous. Decades versus months, hundreds of thousands versus tens of thousands. 600,000 people and their livestock and whatever baggage they had (much less three to four times that many) do not "have a smaller footprint" than a relatively small army marching through an area. You can dismiss it if you feel it's the only way to salvage your comparison, but that doesn't change the fact that the numerical differences in both size and time are massive.
Drich Wrote:The answer is the desert consumes ALL!And yet there are artifacts from people who lived in the area 3,500 years BEFORE the supposed exodus. The desert clearly does not "consume all." It may very well wipe out the tracks of a wandering army that made a brief trek through its sands, but it doesn't wipe out all of the tracks of small tribes and it can't possibly wipe out all of the tracks of what amounts to a modern-day city wandering in its midst for 38 years.
You have no evidence of a 200 year old massive march across that desert for the same reason their is no evidence of a 3000 year old march across that same desert, because the DESERT CONSUMES ALL!
Shifting sand and erosion and 3,000 years of time does not wipe out every last shred of evidence of a group of hundreds of thousands of people and their livestock over a 38-year period.
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