Re: Literal Bible

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Debbie Mann wrote:

> I don't really see a similar case, here, since there was a census. I wonder
> if a number for tens could have been translated 'hundreds' or something like
> that. The Exodus itself was miraculous. As far as the sojourn in the
> wilderness not leaving archeological remains - if the clothes weren't
> wearing out, presumably everything was being preserved by God. However,
> where did all the bones of all these people go? Would archeologists have
> attributed a find of just bones as being evidence of the Exodus?

I don't suppose that the definition of archeology requires digging. In the
northwest corner of Saudi Arabia near the Gulf of Aqaba there is a
mountain called Jabal al Lawz whose top is scorched. The scorch is quite
striking in photographs. People who have managed to sneak into this
restricted area have also photographed altars and a large split rock that
looks like a very fat tuning fork and from which descends what appears to
be a dry stream bed with rock polished by flowing water.

Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
Received on Sun Apr 9 21:00:49 2006