Quadkit wrote:
Also, this is extraordinarily old news. I watched this on some documentary several years ago.
I was told of this theory in a geography class over 30 years ago. It's not news, merely a recent computer modelling experiment that verifies the possibility.
As one who's read the bible as a former Christian and as a scholar, we have to acknowledge that many of the stories in the old & new testaments (and their Judaic and Muslim counterparts) have a basis in history, some of which is validated by archaeology - the battle of Jericho, the enslavement and exile in Egypt, Nebuchadnezzar's feast, the Roman occupation of Judea etc etc.
You don't need to have faith to acknowledge biblical stories, even if you don't buy the miracles, burning bushes and other mystical embellishments.