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DOES THE BIBLE PRESENT A TRUTHFUL VIEW OF HISTORY? THE
EVIDENCE SAYS NO

Legitimate scientists do studies, write up their findings,

then submit them to peer review and publication in recognized
scientific journals. A real scholar is a seeker of truth, a
detective. "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one
has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit
theories, instead of theories to suit facts". Those words
from Sherlock Holmes are just as true of science as it is
indeed detective work. Truth is established by EVIDENCE, not

by what anyone says. Science, or a good detective, proceeds
from evidence to a conclusion, not the other way around.

Some biblical scholars actively seek evidence that would
support their preconceived opinion, namely that what is
written in the bible is correct. A true detective however,
seeks and follows evidence wherever it leads. Nearly all
biblical scholars have now come to the conclusion that the

story of slavery and escape to freedom under the leadership
of a man named Moses as told in the Old Testament ( the Hebrew
Tanakh) books of (Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
was a national foundation myth with no historical basis.

In the early 1800's, a young Frenchman, Jean-François
Champollion, discovered the keys to deciphering Egyptian

hieroglyphics and lead an archeological expedition to Egypt.
Ever since that time, biblical scholars and archaeologists
have combed through Egyptian writings looking for anything
that would confirm biblical accounts. There is NOTHING,
absolutely zero evidence that would support the existence of
either Moses or the biblical Exodus. No mention of anyone
named Moses or anyone like him. Nothing about a baby in reed
boat who grew up to be an official in Pharaoh's court. That
baby in a reed boat story was obviously plagiarized from a
Mesopotamian legend about Sargon the Great, who was in fact

, a real person, the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire, who
conquered Sumerian city-states in the 24th to 23rd centuries
BCE. Those stories get around, don't they? Just like the