/shrugs.....are you going to use the opinions of atheists there as well?......
We can talk about the absurdity of Moses leading the Jews to the Promised Land, which, at the time that the story of Moses allegedly takes place, would have still been part of the Egyptian Empire. Or the fact that there's no record of a mass exodus from Egypt, or any record of any plagues, etc.
My favorite absurdity is the claim that 600,000 Jews were led by Moses during the Exodus. The Bible specifies this as 600,000 men, plus their wives and children and servants.
It doesn't tell us the number of wives or children or servants. But let's be super conservative (because even with super conservative numbers, this story is still hilarious) and only assume that 25% of the men had wives. That would be an additional 150,000 people. So:
600,000 men + 150,000 women = 750,000.
And if we assume that only 25% of those couples had children -- say one boy and one girl each -- that's an additional 300,000 people.
750,000 adults + 300,000 children = 1,050,000 people.
Keeping our numbers super conservative, we're at over 1 million people. And we haven't even gotten to the servants yet!
The problem is that, at the time the Exodus is alleged to have occurred, Egypt's population was 3.5 million.
If we're to believe the Bible, we would need to believe that at least 1/3 of Egypt's entire population just got up and left. If this had happened, there would have been dire socioeconomic repercussions for Egypt.
And yet . . . .
There's no record anywhere of Egypt facing such a socioeconomic disaster.
