” In short, there is tons of evidence, but the secular archaeologists don’t want to change their theories and admit they got it wrong. “
It is called consensus thinking. It affects the entire ‘history’ put together in the 19th Century about the time lines from Sumeria, to the Old Kingdom Egypt, to the history of the Jewish people.
Most of the dating is clearly disputable and far older that consensus history claims.
Much of the foundation dating rests on Old Kingdom Egypt Kings Lists, the major one being a 19th Century forgery bought in a bazar; while it is a known forgery, it is still used to date the Kings. The Palermo Stone which is real, lists Kings on the first row (the oldest) which are completely unknown, and many of the others who are known are missing, and so on.
Worse still, bio-thermoluminescence dating (the date that a stone was placed) of the Menkaure pyramid (the newest) is older than the consensus date of the Great Pyramid, the oldest. Bio-thermoluminescence dating is now illegal, unless done in Egypt which does not have the equipment to do the tests.
Its an uphill battle with many reputations and a lot of money riding on continuing consensus thinking. Facts do not matter apparently, just reputations and power (that sounds vaguely familiar, somehow).
I agree on the consensus thinking. There are always going to be people whose whole careers are built around certain theories, and have much to lose if the theory is discarded. The thing with the timing of the exodus is very interesting to me. An agnostic archaeologist called David Rohl has been looking at this issue for a while.
He claims that part of the confusion is concerning who was the Pharaoh at the time of the exodus. The guy who used the Rosetta stone to enable translation of hieroglyphs apparently mixed up two similar sounding Pharaoh’s. I think the names were Shishak and Shoshenk in the Egyptian. One of them was Ramases and the other I can’t remember. Anyhows, if you or anyone else is interested in the revision of the timeline of the exodus, look up David Rohl or watch Patterns of Evidence.