# Debunk "Jews came to America in 1000 BC"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debunk-jews-came-to-america-in-1000-bc/548114>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 26, 2010, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debunk-jews-came-to-america-in-1000-bc/548114 "2010-07-26T22:47:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debunk-jews-came-to-america-in-1000-bc/548114/41 "2010-07-28T02:51:36Z")

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> [@SoulFrost](#):
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> > [@CC](#):
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> > This, of course, is the core problem that believers are stuck with. They can’t tolerate or accept the unknown. They are flummoxed by uncertainty, ambiguity, or simply a lack of complete understanding. They must attribute items, acts and events and forces to God. The notion that something has been observed but has not been explained by science means to them that the answer must be God, and not “we don’t know, we haven’t a clue, etc.” That is completely unacceptable to them.
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> > To be more fair, the argument advanced by many but not all people for the existence of God is that there _has_ to be some explanation for xyz, and since we have no idea of what that explanation is, there must be a god. How else can you explain…xyz?
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> I’d call that a problem with people. If it’s not God, it’s the Devil. Lacking a Devil, it must be Spirits, Fairies, or Goblins. With no Spirits, Fairies, or Goblins around, we turn to Phlogiston, Humors, and the Luminiferous Aether.
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> It’s only a short hop from there to Men in Black, 9-11 Coverups, and Ancient Mariners.

Uh, Fairies, maybe.

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**Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debunk-jews-came-to-america-in-1000-bc/548114/42 "2010-07-28T16:52:28Z")

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> [@Simplicio](#):
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> Well, hugging the African coast is a little different then sailing west across the Atlantic.

Yes, hugging the coast is more dangerous because that’s where the rocks and shoals are. In fact going between the Canaries and the African coast is one of the most dangerous places in the world to sail due to currents which push ships onto the shores of the desert. Cape Bojador I think.

And Thor Heyerdahl sailed across the Atlantic in one of his impressive little rafts, the Ra II (The Ra I sank).

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