Years ago I read an aricle that took the numbers presented in the bible for years and populations and journeys and the exodus and they did the actual math saying, “okay, if the Jews were in egypt this long, and they started witth this group, and they left at this time with this many people, hee’s how many kids each woman had to have. And if they had tis many, here’s how long a lne itt would have been and how much food they’d have nneeded in the desert.
It was a fun read and I can’t seem to ressurect it. Help a pal out?
Robert Ingersoll? Some Mistakes of Moses if I recall this correctly. It has been many years since I read him.
Some Mistakes Of Moses - Gutenberg Project
We must not forget that during all these years there has been pouring
into our country a vast stream of emigration, and that this, taken
in connection with the fact that our country is productive beyond all
others, gave us only four doubles in one hundred years. Admitting that
the Hebrews increased as rapidly without emigration as we, in this
country, have with it, we will give to them four doubles each century,
commencing with seventy people, and they would have, at the end of
two hundred years, a population of seventeen thousand nine hundred and
twenty. Giving them another double for the odd fifteen years and there
would be, provided no deaths had occurred, thirty-five thousand eight
hundred and forty people. And yet we are told that instead of having
this number, they had increased to such an extent that they had six
hundred thousand men of war: that is to say, a population of more than
three millions!
