Egyptology Sets Up A Straw Man

What I find most humorous about this whole concept is the way it demonstrates the ways conflicts are resolved by different people.Comparing well dated, cross-referenced and consistent {historical\archaeolobgical} evidence to a hypothetical interpretation of a book that makes vague references to events in the past, and noting that there are severe inconsistencies, there are two reactions:(1) Rational: the hypothetical interpretation of a certain time-line based on these vague references is wrong.(2) Irrational: everything else is wrong. It's much more than assertions Ray, it is evidence based on scientific investigations.The logical conclusion would not be that the bible per se is wrong, Ray, but that the hypothetical interpretation of it that developed dates for the {plagues\exodus\etc}, and which is what is really in conflict with the evidence, is what is wrong.It's called a falsified hypothesis.

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Ray, do you insist on missing the point? Or do you like pretending to be a martyr? Or are you baiting me Ray? Lol. What "insult" did I make Ray? (Did you actually even read what I wrote?)I specifically said that the logical conclusion was NOT that the BOOK was wrong (or that the BOOK was an assumption), but that the HYPOTHETICAL INTERPRETATION (of the book) was an assumption that was wrong: So how does that insult "the book"? I even underlined it and used italics in the original so that this point would be as hard to miss as possible.Last time I checked there were no dates of historical events in the bible, even for things less than 2000 years ago (and for which there happens to be a LOT of hard, authoritative, collaborated, cross-referenced hitorical data), so that makes it difficult to use as an "authority" on ancient history in any sense other than one using RELATIVE dating: X happened before Y and Y happened before Z.Any interpretation of events to link them to ones known from other sources (and where actual dates ARE actually known, and involving not just egyptian history but history from greek and other sources as well) is necessarily that: an interpretation, based on assumptions, and subject to (all too human) error. Anyone who says X, Y or Z happened on {{specific year}} is making an interpretation, an assumption.Or do you have trouble distinguishing an interpretation from the data the interpretation is based on?I'd be insulted if I weren't so amused by your response.Enjoy.

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Yep,seems you want to feel insulted.LOL. Nope. I used a generalized condition - "a book" means "any book" in this application. This is why I used "a book" here and "the bible" later - to distinguish between a generalized condition and a specific application of it. The capitalization is yours, showing that you want to feel insulted. Tell me Ray, what year was specifically mentioned in the bible for any event? Your claim of "crystal clear" - as well as the "primary source" - means that things are listed with specific dates rather than vague references to the times things happened. Blatant? prove it. Give me the year month and day that something occured, quoted directly, rather than a vague reference. Betweeen the ASSUMED INTERPRETATION and known historical dates ... again you chose to miss the point.And as far as your "assumption of inconsistency as fact" goes, the post I originally replied to noted those inconsistencies as fact (remember, the one you said was so reasonable?). Again you show that you want to feel insulted. But they weren't about the bible, but about one interpretation of it. Again you show that you want to feel insulted.But hey, if that turns your crank, then, by all means go for it.Enjoy.

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