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Originally Posted by kirklancaster
Welcome back Farhad. I wondered where you'd got to.
Yes, it's always good when 'science'proves your Holy Book is correct in some things.
For years the 'establishment' view among scholars has been that the Biblical account of Joshua bringing down the walls of Jericho could not be true because at the time of the supposed event - 1400 BC - Jericho was already nothing more than an abandoned ruin, and a date for its destruction was firmly fixed at 1550 to 1600 BC.
This 'scientific' view that Jericho fell some 150 years earlier than the Biblical account, was largely due to the work in the 1950's of a British Archeologist, Kathleen Kenyon.
Kenyon was a protege of another archeologist, John Garstang, who in the 1930's, excavated Tell-es-Sultan which is the site of Jericho, and his findings CORROBORATED the date of the biblical account. Years later, when Kenyon undertook further excavation at Jericho, Garstang fully expected her to substantiate his findings, but she did the exact opposite, came up with her own - much earlier date - which discredited both Garstang AND the Biblical account, and made herself famous into the bargain.
After Kenyon, Garstang's findings were ignored and the biblical date for the fall of Jericho was ridiculed.
Now, however, as so often happens in the 'scientific' world, extensive new work by Bryant G. Wood - the world's foremost authority on Caananite pottery, has shown that Kenyon was WRONG and Garstang was CORRECT - the walls of Jericho DID fall in 1400 as the Bible claims it did.
There are many, many instances of 'science' ultimately proving the Bible correct but such news is hardly heralded to the world at large because each finding further weakens the case of extreme atheists.
I shall look into this geological news which you report Farhad - thank you for posting it.
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Atheist run the world these days, and anything that proves our scriptures they will manipulate to further get people to deny the existence of a creator.