COSMOLOGY, WITHOUT CELESTIAL MECHANICS.

American Thinker contributor Andrea Widburg offers "More evidence of the historical truth behind Biblical narratives."  Read on, though, and discover that a historical record is not evidence of Divine Intervention.

I just stumbled across a new entrant into the truth behind the Bible stories. This time, archeology shows that, at the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, there really was fire raining down from the skies.

Genesis 19:24-25 describes the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah when the people, rather than welcoming strangers (who happened to be angels in disguise), instead tried to subject them to homosexual gang rape. “Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.”

Current estimates are that those two cities, assuming they existed, were destroyed between 2100 and 1900 B.C., during the Bronze Age. One of the theories is that an earthquake occurred but, Wikipedia explains, there’s no contemporary evidence from other cultures that there was such a major earthquake at the time. Of course, the timeline could be wrong, so that may explain the absence of an earthquake.

However, maybe the destruction happened a few hundred years later and wasn’t an earthquake at all. Maybe it really was fire and brimstone raining down from the heavens. That’s because we now know that, roughly 3,600 years ago (around 1600 B.C.), a giant space rock traveling at about 38,000 MPH exploded above a site now called Tall el-Hamman, which was once a city in the ancient Middle East, near the Dead Sea.

Close encounters with asteroids might be simpler explanations for other ancient events, including all of Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision.  The shockwave might also have been documented as the heavens giving that mighty shout, and Jericho's walls come tumblin' down.

She continues,

I highly recommend a video called Patterns of Evidence: Exodus. In it, Timothy Mahoney suggests that the reason (usually leftist) archeologists insist that the whole Exodus story is fictional is because they’ve misdated it. If you shift the narrative by 400 years, there’s a great deal of corroborative evidence for the Exodus story.

Corroborative evidence of cosmological phenomena, perhaps.  So too might it have been with Cyrenius and the Bethlehem Star.  But I have a family tradition of asking too many questions about religious doctrine, and there might be a simpler explanation for the corroborative evidence than Divine Intervention.