... it must be either all true or all false. Let's take a historical novel as an analogy. To set the scene it mentions facts that can be verified, but that doesn't mean all the events that are described have actually happened. That's one example of how a book can be in part fact and in part fiction.
Or, since we're discussing in this particular forum, we could look at the Iliad. It was long thought to be all fiction, but then Schliemann found the ruins of Troy. By your reasoning this would be evidence that all the Greek gods exist and that Apollon really did guide Paris' arrow to Achilles' heel.
As to what has been disproven archaeologically, we have the question of the age and origin of humankind. The Bible has names for Jesus' ancestors all the way back to Adam, and someone has calculated that according to the Bible Adam would have been created some six thousand years ago. Archaeologists all agree that Homo Sapiens has existed for at least 200 000 years and that humans and chimpanzees have common ancestors several million years ago. |
