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To: tekboy who wrote (26452)	4/22/2002 10:57:10 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

I don't read science fiction anymore, but when I did, I liked Pournelle, too. Pournelle is what I call an enlightened individual. I think they are rare, unfortunately.

To: tekboy who wrote (26452)	4/22/2002 11:09:12 AM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

I got my doubts about Pournelle and his chosen "University Professor". He tends to oversell his computer knowledge too. Aside from the Harper's piece, which was sort of inflammatory, there's this. As Rabbis Face Facts, Bible Tales Are Wilting nytimes.com Similarly ambiguous, Mr. Levine writes, is the evidence of the conquest and settlement of Canaan, the ancient name for the area including Israel. Excavations showing that Jericho was unwalled and uninhabited, he says, "clearly seem to contradict the violent and complete conquest portrayed in the Book of Joshua." What's more, he says, there is an "almost total absence of archaeological evidence" backing up the Bible's grand descriptions of the Jerusalem of David and Solomon. The Harper's piece used to be online at findarticles.com , but seems to have been pulled or something. Reference: False Testament By Daniel Lazare, Harper’s, March 2002 Not long ago archaeologists could agree that the Old Testament, for all its embellishments and contradictions, contained a kernel of truth. That is no longer the case. In the last quarter-century or so, archaeologists have seen one settled assumption after another concerning who the ancient Israelites were and where they came from proved false.