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XPost: alt.talk.creationism, alt.native
From: penguin_boy@mindOBVIOUSspring.com
What's so funny about peace, love and Atreides
posting the following on Wed, 05 Oct 2005
19:21:51 -0400 iin alt.atheism?
>Douglas Berry wrote:
>> Shit. Or to use the more scientific term, corpoilites. Garbage
>> middens, camp sites, ancient fire pits. If this tribe of people
>> really did spend 40 years wandering the relatively tiny area between
>> the Red Sea and the historical location of ancient Israel, they would
>> have left plenty of evidence.
>
>How would you know how the israelites would have lived as nomads in the
>desert?
It's called "an education." Look into it.
>Many native americans roam america very cleanly, without evidence of
>their presence, in many parts of North America
No, they leave behind garbage. Bones, ashes from cook fires, bodies,
broken or lost tools. They may not be wasters on our level, but
everyone leaves traces of their passing. That's what archeologists do,
dig in other people's trash heaps looking for clues about how they
lived.
And the Ancient Israelites were a Bronze Age culture! They would have
brought metal tools with them, tools that would have been lost or
broken in some cases, so after forty years of ewandering, we should
find dozens of sites with deep fire pits, Egyptian-model Bronze tools,
and bits and pieces of clothing and other remnants that matched the
earlist known examples from Israel. But we don't find that. And
Egyptian records show that slavery wasn't practised in the way the
Bible presents it.
--
Douglas E. Berry Do the OBVIOUS thing to send e-mail
Atheist #2147, Atheist Vet #5
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as
when they do it from religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pense'es, #894.
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