| kevin the wiiite said: I have a big problem with one thing people are saying - "The bible is full of fictional stories." Explain to me the thin layer of oil found throughout the entire middle east without their being a catastrophic flood to destroy and cover up that much forested area.. Explain Josephus' writings on the destruction of the Jews by Nero. Explain the Egyptian record which tells a similar story of an enslaved people being let go by Pharaoh. Explain the remains of the city of Jericho that was sacked by the Jews in the bible. (The walls being blown down by trumpet blasts even has its basis in science with natural frequency!) Explain why 4 people would write entirely different accounts of the life of Jesus without having actually seen it. You can choose whether or not to believe in God, but the bible is as historical as any other ancient writing. (a nice parallel is the recent discovery of the city of Troy proving the historical basis of the Iliad and the Odyssey) Carbon 14 is absolutely useless as a dating technique because nobody knows how much carbon 14 you start with in ancient bone, or how much dissolves into the system while the bone turns to rock. It's much better proven that human bones don't even last 2,000 years in most cases because of all the roman tombs found with only dust where there was once a body. The oldest of bones preserved by ice where bacteria are rarely around to decompose anything are found to be about 10,000 years old. |
Yet bones of 5,000 year old pharoahs are in great condition, with hair still intact. You have a misunderstanding of science, so instead of delving into atomic isotopes or geology I'll just advise that you to research that area on your own (and not from a preacher or religious blogger who knows less about religion than I do about making women happy).
Natural frequency (resonance) is a property of all solids. But stone walls aren't made of a single material (stone, mud, brick, wood), and even the same type of rock taken from the same source will have different properties. When materials have different natural frequencies they dampen the frequency. Engineers easily cancel out resonance by combing materials of different natural frequency. Below is a link that is supports your religious theory, but with a ton of assumptions the engineer can still only claim that it was the marching of the army that brought down the walls, which is laughable when you think about how small ancient armies were. If this was the case, every time there was a parade the town would come tumbling down. Hitler's army would have destroyed itself on their first march through Berlin :)
There is historical evidence of the Hebrews. In the Armana Letters, which were political correspondance between Egypt and its neighbors, the Habiru (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habiru) were nomadic raiders from the desert who were attacking the Canaanites. No where is there any evidence about Egypt letting slaves go.
