Troubles with biblical fundamentalism

**Biblical events, relative to science, history, & archeology**
Event	Time at which it occurred	Relation to biblical account
Cretaceous-Paleogene ("K-Pg") boundary	66 million years ago	part of long evolutionary process
Humans inhabit the Americas	About 21,000 years ago, at the height of the last ice age, when Beringia was at its largest size, due to lower sea levels	Paleoanthropology contradicts the Genesis human-origins story
Still-present ice sheets built up in Greenland & Antarctica	Hundreds of thousands of years, as evidenced by ice core samples	Shows that these glaciers could not have been submerged in the deep sea for months, as the Noah-Ark-flood story implies
New Kingdom (Egyptian Empire) continuously controls territory in the eastern Mediterranean, including "Canaan" (with Palestine)	ca. 1550-1177 BC	Calls into question whether some of the events described in Exodus-Judges could have occurred
Egypt destroys a group called "Israel" in supressing a revolt in "Canaan", as described in the Merneptah Stele	ca. 1207 BC	Earliest known historical reference to "Israel"
Egypt lost control of "Canaan" in the Late Bronze Age Collapse	ca. 1177 BC	During the time when the biblical events before 931 BC would have happened
Judah & Israel separate (I Kings 12)	ca. 931 BC	Earliest date of biblical events which are historically verified (Timeline of the Bible) -- video Which Bible Characters are Historical? (19:13)
Composition of Genesis to II Kings	Centuries after 931 BC	Possible fiction/folklore?
sources of the Torah (Genesis through Deuteronomy) Genesis flood narrative shows the sources of the Noah flood story	ca. "fifth century" (400s) BC	Torah stories were compiled long after the times they deal with
Vaticanus & Sinaiticus codices are written	"fourth century" (300s)	Comparison of Sinaiticus and Vaticanus codices shows many differences between them, with the New Testament
Discovery of the Rosetta Stone in Egypt	1799	Helped facilitate the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs
Jean-Francois Champollion deciphers Egyptian hieroglyphs, helping found modern Egyptology	1822	Enabled knowledge of the bronze-age history of Egypt & "Canaan" (including Palestine) to be re-discovered

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