By Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post Reporter
Scientists have found that a "superheated blast from the skies" destroyed cities near the Dead Sea 3,700 years ago, which biblical analysts are saying echoes the destruction of Sodom.
Science News reported that the new findings were revealed at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research last week by archaeologist Phillip Silvia of Trinity Southwest University in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Notice how some of the archaeologists worldview lenses won't allow them to allow the divine as a possible answer.
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He suggested that the event “was preserved in the Book of Genesis and ultimately incorporated into a traditional tale that, drawing on the layer of ash that covered the destruction of one of its major cities, remembered a place consumed by a fiery catastrophe.”
Notice how to him the Book of Genesis must have incorporated a traditional "tale". It could not have been telling of what actually happened but must have mythified a real event.