Yes, absolutely. That is what I am getting at. But it gets even worse, I have been seeing complete rewriting and redefinition of chapters and verses blown completely out of context and reassembled to make them fit a “desirable scenario and timeline” to try and prove. If they are going to prove it then prove it honestly. To selectively manipulate like that is dishonest as hell and makes me not even want to be part of it anymore.
Here is the difference... Science has not made it a priority point and agenda to prove Biblical works wrong at all cost. Yet, the other way around is a full on crusade that excuses and allows dishonesty as long as it can help prove ALL non-biblical science as wrong. They know they are lying to themselves about much of this history, yet they just can’t bring themselves to repent and admit the deceptive dishonesty.
There is a simple compromise that could benefit all historians from both camps and maybe we could actually solve some historical mysteries, maybe the compromise might actually help Christians more than they think in proving their side of the argument...
HONESTY!
Thomas Aquinas wrote about how there are different kinds of knowledge, and that it was appropriate to use what was then the new learning (a revival of Aristotlian system of logic, deductive reasoning, and syllogisms) to understand the physical world.
OTOH, I'll quibble a bit -- there are some people with dots and letters after their names who are indeed on some kind of atheist crusade; that doesn't mean all scientists, all historians, all secular scholars, are part of that crusade. Certain groups arose for example in Britain who were trying to undermine the Old Testament in particular in order to undermine the divine right of kings; I don't support the divine right of kings, but I'm also not under the banner of long-dead blanket bashers, either.
An example is, Ramses II "the Great" (he was great at self-promotion, and lived a long time, I'll give him that much) was very definitely much later than Moses and the Exodus, yet supposed literalists saddle on the wrong ID of Ramses as the pharaoh of the Exodus, without having the comprehension to understand that it can't possibly be, and that the equation was dreamed up by people with insufficient information and promoted ever since by people with agendas.