Last night I watched a History Channel movie called “Decoding the Exodus”. The whole idea was that a film-maker/investigative-reporter tried to research whether or not the whole story in Exodus could be scientifically plausible or not. So most of the movie was basically him presenting scientific research on how science could account for causing all ten of the plagues and the crossing of the red sea and artifact evidence in Egypt, Greece, and the middle east that corroborates the incidence of this event.
Basically, a volcanic earthquake storm off the coast of Greece in the 1500s BC is what the movie proposes triggered the event. He had interesting ways of supporting his case, such as scientific evidence of events more recent in history where similar things happened. Like a volcano spewing out ice and fire together, and citing a lake in Cameroon that turned blood red due to an underground (naturally caused) gas leak in 1986 and how all these crazy things happened near that lake in Cameroon that were similar to several of the plagues (such as people living nearby breaking out in boils and sores, and people and animals dying from a poisonous vapor that resulted). Basically, he had a scientific explanation for every part of the story, and a lot of historical artifacts including writings in stone that corroborate the events from different perspectives. Of course, I can’t say I read hieroglyphics to agree or disagree with his renderings or have been to these sites to really verify these caves “filled with ancient hebrew carvings” are really where he says they are and so forth. But if I needed some confirmation that it is *plausible* that the events of the Exodus could have happened, its really interesting to hear from someone who did some thorough research what scientific and archaeological evidence supports the idea that the events weren’t just mythology, but historical events.