On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 7:01:28 PM UTC-7, Joe Bruno wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 4:06:27 PM UTC-7, Cloud Hobbit wrote:
> > On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 1:37:58 PM UTC-7, Joe Bruno wrote:
> > > Contemporary witnesses are not required for historical events.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_method
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> > > "Most historical evidence comes from indirect witnesses, people who were not on the scene, but heard of the events from someone else. The Rule Against Hearsay does not apply to historical research."
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> > Is this your way of trying to convince people that the Bible isn't just a massive load of fiction, fantasy and, forgery? It's not working.
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> > I've tried to tell you before that it doesn't matter if some parts of the Bible are factually correct, as long as it is full of all that other crap, nobody can take it seriously as a history book. It's hard to take as bad fiction, let alone the word of an allegedly omnipotent deity. When you have the entire book of genesis
> > revealed as fiction, what do you expect?
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> Moses
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https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/alt.atheism/Non$20biblical$20evidence$20of$20Moses$20existence/alt.atheism/dmeQDsvXsG4/aYPwh6r4kp8J
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> Moses, exodus
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> "When it comes to Moses, again, you have a really larger-than-life portrait," said William Dever, a professor of archaeology from Lycoming College. "I doubt that the miracles attributed to him ever took place. I don't think he led three million Israelites out of Egypt in an exodus across the Sinai. I don't think he was the founder of Israelite religion, but
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> I think there was a Moses. I argue, and I think some other archaeologists will, too, there was a small exodus group -- not millions of people, but perhaps a few thousand -- who did escape from slavery in Egypt."
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You know perfectly well that William Dever does not believe this horseshit and didn't say the second paragraph at all. That's your opinion, not his evidenced based opinion.