any of the Children of Israel needed to be fooled? One could simply write after the fact. 100 years later, one could write almost anything and can rely on group mentality. Do you know how many people claim to have seen Kennedy's assassination? Quite a few more than were actually there. People pass along myth and rumor and will claim to be somewhere to have seen it happen. It's also easy to manipulate the ones who were there to get them to agree that they all saw the same thing. My personal take, not that I expect anyone to care, is that a divine force (G-d, if you prefer) created the universe. You can call that the big bang if you prefer. However, I don't believe the bible is the literal word of G-d and is infallible. I apologize for being sarcastic. You are right that it was uncalled for. I agree with you that one could have written the Bible later and used group mentality to convince people that it was true. However, the Jews have a record of of who transmitted the Bible to whom, in which generation, from the current day all the way back to Moses himself. When could the author have fooled people about events that didn't happen if there is a direct chain all the way back to Sinai? There has never been any record of the chain being broken. Each Jew receives his tradition from his father, who received it from his father