>Religion is religion. Science is supposed to be science. Forcing 'facts' to fit preconceived theories is not science.
Yep, and History can be a strange mixture of Science (honest Archeology, if you are lucky), Social "Science" (Anthropology, masquerading as a biological science), Political "Science" (raw hidden political agenda) and Theology (the dead weight of Culture & Tradition).
Any one of them can screw up the result called "History". And in the case of finding The Lost Tribes of Israel that is certainly true.
The Lost Tribes are your personal obsession. Your comments don't really have any direct relevance to what I posted. You seem to have a gripe about the word 'science' itself.
The 'credo' of the archaeologists I mentioned involved things like belief in the so-called "Clovis Barrier" that prevented them from bothering to even dig below areas where Clovis artifacts were recovered because they 'knew' there was nothing there. That's not very open minded. For lots of reasons (egos, budgets, political correctness) 'discoveries' in archaeology have not been subjected to the same kind of rigorous peer review one finds in physics, say.
Your comments about history are true. History is written by the victors and always contains political spin. But I've never heard history called a science. Ditto social 'science' or political 'science.'