This is not realy a reply to ateuphall's post, I just don't know how to start a new post in this thread.
I am going to go way off-track to start with as background information, but promise to close with on-topic post
I was raised in a fundie environment, but at age ten was lured into a more fundie church that convinced me and my little brother that my parents were liberals and were leading us astray. Our parents allowed us to go to a different church. when I was twelve the pastor of our church returned from the Holy Land (doing one those following the path of Christ tours) and gave us a slide show. One of the most impressive points of the show (to me, a kid) was pictures of a rock with fishing nets on it. This, he said was the remains of Tyre, as prophesied in Ezekial 26. As an ignorant child I brought these points up to a 6th grade teacher who had recently returned from the Middle East as well (who was not a Christian). She told me that she had been to Tyre and it was wonderful. A modern city with an incredible history and great museums. I talked with the friend of my pastor and he told me that the unsaved would make up any lie to deceive the true Christians. So I searched out the information and discovered that Tyre was the fourth largest city in Lebanon, and considered a marvel of fusion between ancient tradition and western technology (I don't know what the status is now, this was the late 70's and early 80's).
I guess the point is that fundies will ignore the existence of a city of several million to prove that prophecy happened. "It wasn't obliterated? Well we will pretend it doesn't exist". My personal beef is that I now know that the photo he showed was from a breakwater from which the modern city of Tyre (hotels and all) were directly behind him. He KNEW the slide was a lie.
So to be on-topic, my biggest biblical absurdity must be the destruction of Tyre as detailed in Ezekial Chapter 26. This has been hailed in many fundementalist circles as the best example of prophesy. But it NEVER happened.