Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
Right, but if they are having to discard their own views so often, maybe they should not be quite so confident in them. The same theories that the Egyptologists used to disprove the Bible in recent decades have themselves been proved to be nonsense by modern Egyptologists. Their beliefs are so flimsy that a few months ago they stated that they had in fact been half a millenia out of whack with what is currently believed to be the historic reality.
There was never any evidence used to disprove the exodus story. That story is disproved by a complete lack of proof.

History is living and changing. That's a good thing, not a bad one. There will always be discussions concerning dating, and no date(except those we can calculate) is a given, we always deal with estimates. Rather than "being proven wrong", we are constantly refining our knowledge.

And when that compares to the bible the simple truth is that science has always moved away from the "bible is historical proof"-thingy, not towards it. Whatever we discover, we always seem to discover something which makes the biblical account even less likely to be the true one.

Why that should surprise anyone is beyond me though. The bible is concerned with detailing how your soul can be saved and you can reach a happy afterlife. When its purpose is to save the souls of mankind, why on earth should it bother with an anal account of getting the correct King X raping King Y in the year Z?