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Bible Story Of Red Sea Parting 'May Be True'
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RE: Bible Story Of Red Sea Parting 'May Be True'
Quote:that the Black Sea flooded a few thousand years ago,


Ryan and Pittman's hypothesis has been debunked.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...101207.htm[/quote]
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(September 23, 2010 at 9:39 am)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:that the Black Sea flooded a few thousand years ago,


Ryan and Pittman's hypothesis has been debunked.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...101207.htm
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Not completely.....

"“So if this is true, it means that the magnitude of the Black Sea flood was 5 or 10 meters but not 50 to 60 meters,” said Giosan. “Still, having flooded the Black Sea by 5 meters can have important effects, for example, drowning of the Danube Delta and putting an area of 2,000 square kilometers of prime agricultural land underwater. This has important implications for the archaeology and anthropology of southern Europe, as well as on our understanding of how the unique environment of the Black Sea formed.”
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It would have hardly been the catastrophe that Ryan and Pittman suggested to support their 'Noah's Ark' claims. Even then, it seems unlikely that people living near the water's edge would not have been able to move away as the water rose. One assumes that our ancient ancestors would not stand there and drown.....I hope.

Besides, the Ark story which was stolen and incorporated into the OT seems to have Mesopotamian origins and the Tigris and Euphrates do flood on occasion. Evidence for such floods has been found.

Finding evidence to back up the Noah bullshit is the holy grail of fundamentalist archaeology...which is to say it is not archaeology at all but merely religious nonsense.

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Quote:Finding evidence to back up the Noah bullshit is the holy grail of fundamentalist archaeology...which is to say it is not archaeology at all but merely religious nonsense.

Not to mention insanity of the highest order. But then again, people who are brainwashed tend to live in an alternate reality.

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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(September 23, 2010 at 7:45 am)Zen Badger Wrote: I imagine that most of the stories in the bible have some basis in reality.

For instance the great flood might be based on the possibilty that the Black Sea flooded a few thousand years ago, driving out the inhabitants. When your world is the area you can walk in a day then your whole world has indeed flooded.

Twisting facts for some purpose until it is completely unrecognizable has basically the same effect as out right fabrication.
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The earliest actual evidence we have for the Sumerian flood myths is the epic of Ziusudra. We have a tablet of it dated to the 17th century BCE but it is referred to in another Sumerian document from the mid-3d millenium. Either date is far earlier than the appearance of any "Jews."
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(September 22, 2010 at 7:56 am)DiRNiS Wrote: The Biblical story about the parting of the Red Sea may really have happened - with a little help from some freak weather conditions, say researchers.

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Note that this article does not mention the need for divine intervention and the supposed place where this "miracle" happened is not in the Red Sea but an area of the Nile Delta region nearby. However, I will not be surprised if some theist morons attribute these "findings" as "proof" that their fairy tale is true and backed by science.

Of course they will. But hell, grant the whole scenario; it still doesn't make any sense. So, God causes Pharoah and the Egyptians to pursue the Israelites, and then when the Israelites meet a road block, Moses then uses divine powers (from God, presumably) to part the waters to get them out of a jam that the deity himself created in the first place? Makes about as much sense as God sending himself in the form of Jesus to get his creation out of a spiritual jam that God himself created and foreknew.
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I'll be the first to admit that I'm not as 'up' on Egyptian history as I could be, but last I heard no one had found actual evidence of Jews being slaves in Egypt, rendering the need for "Let my people go" pretty much moot. The whole Exodus story has been twisted around like a pretzel to fit certain geological events by plenty of people desperate to prove certain historical accuracies in the Old Testament.

All you really need to know is that most Jewish holidays follow the story of "someone oppressed us, somehow we got over it...can we eat?" Making a grandiose story about escaping slavery makes for a hell of a reason to eat a ton of really damn good food for a week.

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Quote:but last I heard no one had found actual evidence of Jews being slaves in Egypt,


Correct.

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Wouldn't the strong wind knock the Israelites on their keesters?
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