gdemetz wrote:He makes a good point that your flavor of scientists accept the Egyptian account, but reject the Hebrew account.
I don't accept the Hebrew account because it plays so liberally with dates, and absolutely NO archaeological evidence has been found to back up its chronology.
We can stay away from Noah for a bit, and choose someone much more recent in Biblical history, Moses.
Moses came into Biblical stories around 2300-2400 years after Adam, approximately 1550 before Christ, then he lives for 120 years (his brother Aaron lives 123 years). Moses leads 600,000 men (not counting women and children, and livestock and bread) at the age of 80-81, out of Egypt. Exodus 12.
He takes these 600,000 men, plus women and children, out into the Sinai desert for
40 years. The one piece of evidence that seems to be left are the ten commandments written on stone tablets.....but they're not to be viewed except in the ark of the covenant...which nobody is allowed to look at even if they know where the ark is.
Many, many archaeologists have explored and dug and searched for any traces of these more than one million people in the desert. If you know of any artifacts from the 40 year trek in the desert feel free to enlighten me. Apparently these soldiers and women and children left no fire sites, no garbage, no camp sites, nothing. No one on this trek ever lost anything, like a piece of jewelry, which they apparently took with them. No one ever lost a shoe or tossed away a weapon. No one ever built a latrine. Isn't that odd?
I don't believe Moses lived to be 120 years old. I don't believe that 600,000 soldiers trekked around with him for 40 years in the desert without leaving a single piece of evidence of being there.
Meanwhile, the Egyptians were building huge grave sites, fashioning exquisite jewelry, building buildings, planting crops and painting beautiful pictures of each detail of their lives...both before and after the time of Moses. Hundreds of thousands and even millions of artifacts still exist from the Egyptians. Some of these things were carved in stone, some were made of wood but they have even left clothes and foods and grains from the same time of Moses.
So, yes, my favourite flavour is Egyptian.
And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love...you make. PMcC