Well, you wanted me to respond to your post so for starters, I did make one mistake and that was to think I was talking to another friendly person who shared the excitement of great archeological finds. From your post though, I see we don't share the same views. As you are a skeptic of the Triune God of the Bible, I am a skeptic of people who claim their versions of historical events are the absolute truth even though it's a theory and everything else is some historical myth or nonsense. Wasn't the Big Bang Theory held as the main explanation of how the universe came about? Now since James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was setup in space, some scientists have questions about the theory and what JWST has found out there in the universe. Same with Darwin's Theory of Evolution, molecular biology has challenged parts of that theory.
Yes, the peer reviewed scientific explanations probably are the best solutions to many scientific questions but these explanations are only based on what scientists know about our world and let me tell you, there is still alot science doesn't know about the Earth and sea not alone, our solar system, the galaxy or the universe.
No one today lived during these historical periods so information about them is good deductible guessing and cannot be absolutely proven. So let others have their say about historical events.
And the reason I feel confident about God's Word is because I have had things in my life happen that I feel can only be explained by a supreme being so I pursued this Supreme Being logically to the Triune God of the Bible. I don't expect you to believe me but I believe and that is what is important. God bless.
You get a lot wrong. As elsewhere noted,
your notions about science are ill informed.
As for appreciating archaeology?
My Dad was a geologist. We had
archaeologists and their wonderful
stories for dinner guests. Ive been
on digs.
Guess why I am impatient with
woo woo "archaeology". I studied
geology and archaeology ay uni.
Guess why I'm impatient with someone
utterly unskilled in the art telling me all
about it and how I've no appreciation.
( it's not nice to make things up)
A person with some substance to their
"fascination" would not be watching cartoonish
vids or be so uninformed of archaeology that they'd think that anyone's jaw would drop at hearingof finds that further confirm whatever knows already. That parts of the bible refer to real things.
The only astonishment any " biblical archaeologist" cab deliver is how wacky they can get. See Ron Wyatt
Archaeology confirms lots of
Chinese history too. Jaw drop, any ?
In your " response" you go off on "big bang"
and don't bother to deal with the fact that
research disproves such as the flood, and
produces zero (0) evidence of anything
supernatural.
Are you confident there was a flood?
What does archaeology tell you about flood?
Is it-
" I believe and that's what is important"
Or does science prove it's just a story?
You are skeptical of people who claim they have
the absolute truth? Terrif. That's how a scientist
sees things.
Looking to "prove" what you want to find is
for phonies.
There are some good archaeological
journals. Try those, youtube vids are not
how you'd wa t your pumbdr trained.