That many people wandering around in a desert for 40 years would leave evidence of their passing - garbage, waste, the dead, bones from animals they ate, etc. Yet there is nothing. 40 years and not a single person saw them.

Also, Egypt losing that many slaves would have crippled the nation and made them ripe for invasion. Yet it's not mentioned by either them or the surrounding people, who surely would have noticed that many people walking by.

Also, in those egyptian Hiroglyphics, I'm sure somewhere they would have mentioned the loss of millions of slaves and the wiping out of a huge army, even the Bush administration couldn't have had an oversight that big :D

....You're all relying on innaccuracies from the Bible! The Bible is THE MOST HISTORICALLY INACURATE SOURCE. It never said that 'The Jews whipped out the entire army of the Pharoh'. It could've been a small force set out in terms to try to stop untrained slaves. ALSO the entire Jewish population DID NOT ESCAPE. There was a slave revolt. How do we know? A Jewish nation was established in Isreal shortly after that. And I don't think the Jewish people who controlled it were just created from no where.

When you are analyzing historical events as risen from a religious document, you first get an idea of what it says happen then throw it away. It can and WILL mislead you. Why? Because that Religion WILL glorify itself! Examine other sources and do some research before making wide claims. I base mine off the great deal of research I've done for history projects over the years and from my own interest in Ancient History.

Slave revolts happen, look historically. Some of which are famous and altered like the tale of Spartacus and Moses. Others more historically kept like the Underground Railroad. And some just plain forgotten.

Oh, and as another side note Kach, most of Egyptian Heiroglyph has been lost thanks to the floodings and alterings of the Nile Valley for farming purposes in the past one hundred years. Most of the rest has been lost due to the past two thousand years of passing more hands than a Bangcock prostitute, and from how leaders ALWAYS hide things they'd view as demeaning and as defeats. Added to the fact that Egyptian leaders LOVED to rework their temples and alter descriptions, I am by no means amazed that Egypt would've had no record intact of what happened.

(Historical Fact: We wouldn't know the Great Pyramid of Giza was that of Khufu if not for a workers inscription on one of the crypt walls)

The way I see the bible is just one big ass analogy but in the meantime everybody's freaking out and viewing the bible as more reliable thatn a history textbook.

Denouncing the word of God is the same as denouncing the existance of God himself, in my opinion. I think most people here know of my theories of creation through evolution, and it's not a topic I want to discuss, otherwise we'll be discussing it for the rest of our natural lives.


But as for this particular incident, I believe the parting of the Red Sea and the drowning of the Pharaoh's Army really did happen as described in the Bible, but it also has correlating set of scientific explanations of which we have yet to uncover. But I am not opposed to hearing all your theories on the subject of what did and did not happen. But let's keep side discussion on religion and science as a whole out of it.

The Bible isn't the word of God though. It has been rewritten time and time again by man. And anyone who's played the 'telephone' game knows, a message handed from one person to the next tends to get very distorted. If you may get me an original copy though that was supposedly written by one whom heard God tell him to write it, then that is a different case.

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