>A few leaps. More like a few thousand. LOL, yeah it definitely was not the most well-constructed scientific argument.
>Ramese III and Thutmose II or >their successors were the only ones that would fit within that time >frame. T That would depend on the exact date of the Exodus, something that is fairly debatable. >You would think that given the spectacular nature of those miracles, >someone other than the Israelites or the Christians would have >noticed. Well, there were no Christians during that time to have noticed. ;-) We're also talking about a very ancient time, for which discoveries still are made on a fairly regular basis. It basically comes down to ...is there definitive mention of things that we can link to the Exodus? Nope, no proof that it occurred. But are there things in the historical records that might be related? Possibly yes. We have no real knowledge one way or the other. It's certainly not logical to say that since we can't definitively link it to anything specifically, it must not have happened. Of course, even if an Exodus did occur and we find evidence of some natural phenomenon at the same time, it would not mean a God would have been involved. The "argument from silence" is simply not a valid argument to use. As for the darkness at the time of Christ's death, there are certainly writings that refer to it second-hand, and reasons why historians such as Pliny might not have included it. Again of course, it all depends on how someone looks at the information and interprets it. People that want to disprove that anything supernatural occurred will always find a way to make the data fit that world view, just as those with the opposite view will find a way to make it fit theirs. I often find that people with a non-religious position are just as likely to make huge jumps of logic as those with religious convictions are. The "argument from silence" is just one good example of that. --- Mary Jo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:306363 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
