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12 thoughts on “Did the Exodus really happen?”

1. Exodus
   It happen but not for reasons the Bible gives. There was a natural disaster at the time and science has proved it. 1. The volcano on sandurini (sp) erupted causing major disasters around the Mediterranean including in Egypt. 2. There was a solar system disaster at the same time, meteors etc.

   1. Well, the natural disaster explanation for the “plagues” sounds plausible enough, but it still doesn’t explain why they supposedly didn’t effect the Hebrews (as natural disasters are indiscriminate in who they effect), nor why the Egyptians don’t seem to have spoken of the events in their historical records, nor how Egypt managed to continue thriving so well long afterwards despite the damage such levels of catastrophe would have caused.
      Overall, it makes more sense that Exodus is just a work of fiction (though natural disasters might have inspired some of the stuff in the story).

2. Volcanic holes in theory
   The eruption of the volcano on Santorini is supposed to have occurred 3600 year ago. The apocryphal Moses supposedly existed 3300 years ago. The volcano didn’t erupt for three centuries.

   A strange aspect of this Exodus theory is that the Egyptians never wrote a thing about Hebrews. Just as there are no contemporaneous writings about Jesus, there are no Egyptian tracts about Hebrews either entering or exiting Egypt. Possibly these writings were destroyed when an Egyptian volcano erupted.

   I think that it is absolutely marvelous that five million Hebrews were able to live for forty years in a desert wasteland that could not have even supported twenty thousand.

   Even though the Hebrews did absolutely nothing to advance civilization through innovations in architecture, engineering, art, literature, agriculture and any other area of human achievement, we must revere Hebrews as the “chosen people.”

3. Nice review
   Looks like this guy is up to the same old apologist tricks. :silly:

   It’s a shame the trees that were wasted to print this book. This guy should have saved himself some hassle and posted his ideas to an message board. Maybe if he had some foresight into how easily his arguments could be dismantled, he’d save himself some time.

4. Also, the subtitle of the book is ironic, isn’t it? A “scientific examination of the exodus story”. Christians think that hacks pretending to be “scientific” lends credibility to their argument, and yet, with the sweep of a hand they ignore a great body of scientific knowledge in favor of archaic creation myths.

   Why pretend to have “science” on your side? Just call it belief. And how interesting is it that belief is what he resorts to most often in this book.

5. Hey Acharya

   Thank you for this enlightening and very amusing crash course in revisionism.

   I have a question for you:

   Have you got any kind of reaction from this religious fanatic Mr Möller?

   I would not think so, since all his proofs are very effectively crushed by your crystal clear logic and conventional scientific reasoning.

   For me this and all of your other work — including your books — is a huge and satisfying victory since most of it very clearly point out a common red line:

   Hebrews are — and always have been — fantastic storytellers….

   You also proofs one other thing:

   It does not take sharp intelligence to become a professor — in this case, a Professor of “Environmental Medicine” what ever that is…..

   One of “my rules” is as follows and I will always stand by it:

   Never trust or have anything to do with religious individuals — they do not have all horses in the stable and can never be trusted.

   Best wishes from Sweden & Take Care

6. Moller’s book has many entries one can criticize, but he also brings to light many facets which point to a divine event. The fact that modern-day Nuweiba could be the crossing site for the Hebrews dovetails perectly with the biblical narrative. The underwater discoveries strongly hint that something cataclysmic occurred at that site and one would like to have more underwater research conducted there but, sadly, neither the Egyptians nor the Saudis would ever allow any such discovery if it might, ultimately, hint at a Hebrew “miracle” Also, the evidence around the proposed site of Mt. Sinai DOES fit the biblical account. Why COULDN’T Jabel Lawz be Sinai? And what of the circles in the sand and the golden calf “altar” at the base of Lawz? Who drew the petroglyphs? At a minimum, it can be said that Moller has raised a lot of questions, proposed a lot of answers and opened the door for a more thorough round of research. I hope it happens. As a Christian, I would certainly like to know what can be validated and what ought to be tossed into the deep. I found his book to be thought-provking and thorough. It cannot be said he didn’t do his homework. It’s interesting that most of the skeptics seem to come from the “scholar” class. As I learned years ago, when it comes to history, two historians can view the same event and interpret it like the other observer was blind.

   1. Stinky, try actually reading the review and you will learn just how absurd Mollers’ claims really are.

      Did the Exodus Really Happen? The Exodus Case Reviewed by D.M. Murdock
      http://truthbeknown.com/exoduscasereview.pdf

      Read this book:

      Did Moses Exist? The Myth of the Israelite Lawgiver
      http://www.amazon.com/Moses-Exist-Myth-Israelite-Lawgiver/dp/0979963184/truthbeknownfoun

      Be prepared to have your Christian beliefs very thoroughly debunked.

7. My Christian views are debunked everyday. By the common culture media. It doesn’t make their assessments right, it merely makes them audible.

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