Idiots with degrees

From the New York Times...

“Really, it’s a myth,” Dr. Hawass said of the story of the Exodus, as he stood at the foot of a wall built during what is called the New Kingdom...

...archaeologists who have worked here have never turned up evidence to support the account in the Bible, and there is only one archaeological find that even suggests the Jews were ever in Egypt. Books have been written on the topic, but the discussion has, for the most part, remained low-key as the empirically minded have tried not to incite the spiritually minded.

“Sometimes as archaeologists we have to say that never happened because there is no historical evidence,” Dr. Hawass said, as he led the journalists across a rutted field of stiff and rocky sand.

Based on that same "logic" archeologists will now claim that ancient Egyptians never used the bathroom, they just exploded when they turned 35.

What the deluded "doctor" fails to mention is that there's very little evidence to suggest anything about ancient Egypt. We have a handful of items left in tombs that are open to speculation in regards to what they are and what they mean, but common day things are missing. Except for one lone source--the Bible.

In the absence of any evidence to prove the Bible wrong, (and there has never, ever been any archeological discover that has proven the Bible wrong) atheist archeologists make the absurd assumption that silence means something. Yet when it comes to archeology, common sense would tell you hat silence simply means if any evidence did exist it has vanished or has not yet been found. There is no such thing as conclusive silence in archeology.

Look at what the Bible says. The Egyptians were disgusted by the Hebrews (they were technically not "Jews" at that time, the name being derived from the later dominance of the tribe of Judah) since they saw anyone who worked with cattle as unclean. The Hebrews eventually became their slaves. The Egyptian Pharaohs maintained power by declaring himself a descendant of the gods, and therefore demanded worship as a semi-deity as well as a monarch. The Exodus would have severely damaged that illusion, and just as the Bible records that the Egyptians erased Moses name from every place that it had been written, in order to re-establish the claim of divinity, subsequent Pharaohs would have needed to erase any evidence of the Exodus, as well as their former slaves.

Imagine the legacy of being bested by the God of lowly slaves? Slaves who handled cattle, to boot! Why would the Pharaohs allow any evidence of it to remain?

Twisting the evidence to force it to support your agenda is not science, and people who do that should stop calling themselves scientists. (That includes Evolutionists.)

Posted by Danny Carlton at April 4, 2007 5:37 AM