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Originally Posted by milligal  You're welcome to your opinion, it's just when you want others to buy into it, you need to give them a reason. Scholarly peer reviewed articles mean that a professional in the field wrote it, and the his/her peers read and agreed with it. This adds much more validity than someone off the street writing down their opinion and posting it on a website. |
Scholarly, peer, reviewed citations are the result of intense scrutiny executed by many scholars to determine the authenticity of a theoretical proposal. They maintain the status quo in academia. Therefore, it often takes scholars eons to agree on things.
In 1616, Galileo (the famous, Italian astronomer) travelled to Rome to convince the church that the earth revolved around the sun instead of the other way around as the church had maintained. It took religious scholars over a century to fully agree that Galileo's theory was indeed correct.
If the Jebel El Lawz site turned out to be the real Mt. Sinai, the church would once again be embarrassed and the scorched mountaintop peak would be the subject of intense, scientific scrutiny.
Jacob