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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
jar writes: Buz, in Message 41 did you or did you not say:
quote: Thank you, Jar. I stand corrected. I was careless when I posted this and/or perhaps in too much of a hurry. I never regarded that as an alter. I should have said rock.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
Admin, I don't believe circumstantial evidence would be corroborated by multiple evidences as I have shown to be the case here. Nor would it involve photo-graphical research to the extent that scientist Moller has done.
I don't buy your argument, any more than the renowned credentialed scientist researcher would. There are many intelligent people who would not agree to your position. Some would and some would not. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
ramoss writes: So, you have some round coral clusters..that you are projecting as being 'wheels'. What you can not show is those mounds that are round are actually wheels.. You need something more than 'Oh gosh, that looks like a chariot wheel, therefore the exodus happened and god exists'. You're resorting to (as others have attempted) to divide and conquer, discounting the aggregate line-up of supportive evidence. I suggest that you read or reread about that in the thread, before arriving at an objective conclusion. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
hERICtic writes: I have read this thread since the beginning, but perhaps I missed this crucial point. The numbers of Israelites must have been close to at least three million; men, women and children. If the average lifespan was around 40 years and they wandered the desert for 40 years...then nearly everyone who started the journey would have died in the desert. Since the enviroment is ideal for preservation...I would assume if the exodus occured there should be plenty of remains to be found. According to the record, due to their unbelief and murmuring, only the young survived to go into the promised land, the rest all dying in the wilderness and particularly, Kadesh Barnea. Moses, in fact, climbed the mountain on which he expired and died, a healthy man, at the age of 120. Many were likely aged but healthy when they exited Egypt. They would have died off in the wilderness or at Kadesh. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
Admin writes: Buzsaw writes: You're resorting to (as others have attempted) to divide and conquer, discounting the aggregate line-up of supportive evidence. I suggest that you read or reread about that in the thread, before arriving at an objective conclusion. I need to remind you that throughout this thread the other participants have been complaining that you have presented no evidence, and that you have been responding that you have. In response to this back-and-forth so that discussion can return to the thread's topic I asked that you collect your evidence together. In my Message 366 I asked that you provide this evidence:
And in my Message 427 I asked that you provide this evidence:
Thank you. I have no further evidence than what I have cited. If you choose to close the thread or disqualify me from further participation, that's your call.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
Buz, you're repeating the very claims I asked you to stop repeating. If you're going to ignore moderator requests then please stop participating in this thread. I'm going to hide the content. Also, please stop replying to my messages. This is not a discussion. I've made my requests clear, so please follow them or stop posting. --Admin
Admin writes: Buzsaw writes: I have no further evidence than what I have cited. If you choose to close the thread or disqualify me from further participation, that's your call. You claim you have presented evidence in this thread. Others say you haven't. Rather than continuing this, "Yes I did, no you didn't" I want you to settle the issue by collecting all that evidence into a single message. We've been there and done that way back in Message 175 on page six. We've been debating those acclaimed evidences with the usual and expected responses. Secularists consistently argue that none are valid. It is an established fact than no secularist is ever going to admit to any evidence supportive to anything supernatural. What you've been given throughout the thread is all that I have. What has dragged this thread on is the need for me, the one vs the pack to respond to the numerous objections of the pack. If I fail to respond I be dammed. If I respond, I be dammed. I expect that when my stuff effectively challenges the positions of the majority counterparts. Nobody likes their ox to be gored, so to speak. Perhaps, if my responses are objectionable to you, it's time to close the thread. I have no further evidence to debate than what has been cited. In the mean time, so long as I get response I try to answer, in a good spirited manner, to the best of my ability. Edited by Admin, : Hide content. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
hERICtic writes: The average lifespan was 40 years. Your source is what? Edited by Admin, : Hide content because it is in violation of moderator requests. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
We've gone over this same-ole, Jar. I'm not going to re-hash it all over, especially knowing that nothing will satisfy you people who have a phobia of anything supportive to the supernatural. . The only reason I brought it forward is to show what evidence I cited. Edited by Admin, : Hide content because it is in violation of moderator requests. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
kowalskil writes: jar writes: Buz has claimed that there is some evidence that the Biblical Exodus happened. While the saga itself has none of the attributes of an historical account and all of the attributes of an extended fable meant to provide food and shelter for the storyteller over many nights, it is always possible that there was some small truth that led to the creation of the longer fable. This thread is meant as an opportunity for Buz in particular but anyone else who might think it is an actual historical account to present their best arguments in support of that position. Bible Accuracy if possible. Most Biblical stories describe what people believed long time ago. Some stories were probably invented. Most theologians would probably agree. Personally I am not ware of physical remains of exodus. Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia). . Hi Ludwik. Welcome to EvC. We're honored to have members of your academic stature aboard. I hope you will find time to continue with us. Have you read the whole thread objectively? Personally I think you need to become objectively (I say objectively) aware of the physical evidence cited in this thread; all of it corroboratively. It doesn't take much evidence to convince secularists of, say, multi-verses and abiogenesis. On the other hand no amount of evidence will ever convince avowed secularists of anything involving the existence of the Biblical god, Jehovah. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
My last message was a welcoming and advocation to Ludwig, not to rehash what's been covered in the thread.
BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
In Message 175 I listed what I considered supportive evidence for the Exodus event. Some, if not all on the list have been rejected as non-evidential by both Admin and other counterparts.
Thus, when Admin called for another list, I assumed that what Admin really wanted was something acceptable to him and/or other counterparts in this debate which would needs be additional evidence.
Message 175 list:
quote: There has been debate about the entrapment which amounted to arguing about the Biblical description of the circumstances which the befell them. Arachophilia and Jar have dialogged further on that account. Jar brought up images of the shore area near the traditional Mt Sinai. It would have been easier to escape that region than Nuweiba, especially given the Egyptians had chariots to reckon with. Objections were aired about the shallows at Nuweiba. I offered possible scenarios on that, including the erosive energy of the released walls of water rushing back upon the relatively soft sandbar, which was essentially a delta formed from the canyon at some time (imo, by the Noaic flood) but nevertheless a canyon delta which would not likely have produced a hardened delta, If the Noaic flood formed it, the forming of it was relatively recent to that time If not recently formed, it would still be more easily eroded than the rocky shores of that region. Nuweiba, so far as I can ascertain, is the most doable topographical area of the Red Sea for a crossing. No reasonable area of the main body of the Red sea having any corroborative evidence exists. As to the blackened mountain, there was some question about what gave the mountain the dark appearance. The fact remains that there is a dark topped mountain in the right secession of ducts corroborating my acclaimed evidences. The inscriptions were debatable as well.. The fact remains that they, likewise, were of hoofed animals indicative of some activity in the region and positioned at the right corroborative location. The land of Midian is debatable, but again, the corroborating evidence favors Arabia. Lennart Moller's reputation and credentials seem to indicate that he was not an impostor. There was too much at stake for him to risk his academic credibility. I maintain that secularist researchers do not have a vested interest in researching Nuweiba since it involves the supernatural. I consider the Mollar research as the core evidence to build upon with the corroborative support. The split rock has the appearance of a sudden severance compatible with the Exodus account. Jar produced images of creek bed smooth round rocks in his feeble attempt to debunk the water-flow area below the split rock. I countered that a shattered rock would not produce smooth rounded rocks at the base of the crack. There is a leveled bed of fractured pieces leveled so as to indicate a water-flow at the base of the crack. Likely the flow did not last long enough to round off or smoothen the shattered pieces which exist there. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
ringo writes: Buzsaw writes:
You haven't offered any explanation as to why God would require shallows. Objections were aired about the shallows at Nuweiba. I offered possible scenarios on that.... The account does not mention Jehovah changing the topography. All it says is that he rolled back the waters and dried up the sea floor. It's logical to assume that Jehovah would direct his people to the most doable route to and through the sea. Jehovah tends to do for his people what they can't do for themselves. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
PaulK writes:
It was shown that the claim of a shallow crossing at Nuweiba was a falsehood, spread by the supporters of Ron Wyatt - in fact this had been covered thoroughly in earlier discussions, so Buz had no reason to repeat it. And I need hardly point out that a purely hypothetical sandbar is NOT evidence. The delta sandbar is not purely hypothetical. Your refuse to acknowledge the possibility of my scenarios. You have provided no evidence that the Moller is a lying impostor. None have yet made any effort to research the region so as to falsify the evidence that Moller has produced.
PaulK writes: It has not been shown that Nuweiba is the best site at all, indeed there has been little discussion of alternatives. There was some discussion and images of a site near traditional Mt Sinai which would be topographically far less doable than Nuweiba and less likely to entrap them. Again, little or no corroborative support has been cited for any other crossing as compatible with the Biblical record as the Nuweiba site.
PaulK writes: The dark-topped mountain (to call it blackened begs the question) has not been shown tobe of any great significance. Without strong corroborating evidence, it is worthless. Say what? The corroborating evidences which you doggedly refuse to acknowledge are all that make it significant, including the animal inscriptions below the mountain, the split rock and Moller's research etc. One thing which would be problematic, were it not for the corroborating evidence is that the hills in the region appeared to have a dark appearance, possibly due to some brush or something. Nevertheless, that would not necessarily falsify the question of the cause of the mountain's black appearance. Were there no black topped mountain in the region, the other ducks in my row would lack a significant duck for completion of the row needful to support the Biblical account.
PaulK writes: There is nothing whatsoever linking the petroglyphs to the Exodus, therefore they are not evidence of the Exodus. This is not debatable either. How can you continue repeating that feeble argument, Paul? The people had hoofed animals and they worshiped a calf. Regardless of the number of inscriptions or why they carved them, the important thing is that out in no man's land, so to speak, they exist, supportive to the other evidences cited.
PaulK writes: There has been no evidence presented that the Biblical Mount Sinai is in Midian. This point is therefore not evidence, either. Josephus wrote that the Biblical Mt Sinai is in Midian. The apostles and another historian cited in the link concur. Paul, you can't just waive off each and every acclaimed corroborative evidence cited as totally non-supportive to the Exodus account. Note that I say supportive, just as Moller has done in his Exodus Video. He says that he has done the research. He admonishes the viewers to look at the evidences and decide for themselves as to what to believe about them.
PaulK writes: The final point about the rock is also silly. We have the usual ignorance of the Bible - there is no mention of the rock splitting at all. We also have an ignorance of geology - water flow would round the angular fragments, thus the presence of these fragments shows evidence against water flowing there. And without evidence of water flow, we have no connection to the Exodus. A split rock alone is not evidence. Split rock alone?? So much for objectivity. I've alluded to the fragments in question relative to the water flow. So far, none have effectively countered my arguments. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
jar writes: Buz writes: The delta sandbar is not purely hypothetical. Fine. Where is the evidence of the delta sandbar? I've explained my position on that count. What have you got for refutation? Give it your best shot. You're a man of many repetious questions and few edifying responses. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
Can we agree that Nuweiba beach is essentially a large delta formed from the Wadi Waki and the canyon (Colored Canyon?) which it emerges from?
BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.
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