from an objective perspective judaism is the most believable religion in the world

You said quote "I'm willing to defend Blavatsky's Theosophy as more believable than Judaism. " And you said you're awaiting my rebuttals. Now you just move on to ignore discussing the tenants of theosophy, and just discuss Judaism. But the title of the debate is that Judaism is the most believable religion and i will not stray from that. I made the argument that being that Judaism is based on the collective experience and testimony of the entire nation - as opposed to other religions which have to take on faith that g-d have revealed himself to that individual - our experience is a historical fact, the evidence being the nation itself, which celebrates the events of the giving of the torah by g-d, the exodus from Egypt, the traveling in the desert for 40 years. All of these events are commemorated every year with the three main holidays. This is an event which has more historical basis than most events in history, which were witnessed by comparatively a small amount of people. It's accepted scientifically that if numerous people say they witnessed the same thing, the broader the spectrum of people the more there is less room for doubt. Now the Jews are a very large group of people, they claim that these events occurred to them. You want to deny this (perhaps the temple never stood in Jerusalem, perhaps the holocaust never happened. You see denying that something happened is very easy, the question is what should be acceptable as evidence for normal people, a number of witnesses constitutes proof the greater the number of witnesses the more positive you are. ) Now you would like to say that we've been had. The Jewish people has been deceived, my question to you is how. I don't believe that parents would deliberately lie to their children and deceive them and raise them on a complete lie. So you will argue no, your parents didn't lie to you they were also deceived, all the way back. But what happened back then, then how did an entire nation become convinced of such a story occurring to them. Again to say they were in collusion with each other is ridiculous thousands of people can't be in collusion and I don't think people would indoctrinate their children on something they don't believe. Another important point, the smaller the story the easier it for people to be deceived. You would like to claim that quote "It's more likely this story was spread and exaggerated for quite some time before it was finally written down. Given the short lifespans of people back then. It's easy to see how myths can spread fast with very little fact checking. This is probably multiplied by the fact, that the whole myth is telling its adherents how uniquely special they are and how they are genetically superior to the rest of the world. " But my friend by saying that something happened over quite some time doesn't answer the question how did hundreds of thousands of people come to believe these events had happened to them. If someone would come now and make up the story of the creation of America (revolutionary war etc. ), if it hadn't occurred it would not be accepted. I challenge you to spend 500 characters giving a believable, plausible theoretical story about how such a thing can happen. Use your imagination come up with whatever you want. The reality is your story will be an unbelievable tale (probably as extraordinary as the story of the exodus itself) making you the conspirecy theorist as opposed to the norm, anything rather than to say that the events actually occurred. . http://www.chabad.org... Just to comment on your remarks you should know that when we say the mortality rate was 35 or whatever it doesn't mean the average person was dead by 35, rather the child mortality rate etc. brings it down in fact all the great Greek philosophers 2,500 years ago lived into their 70s as did a great percentage of the population. . http://johnhawks.net... Regarding your point of the message being how special they were. Two points, one like i said parents don't purposefully teach their children things they don't believe to be true, secondly (you, like the last person I debated completely misunderstood my comment of there being 613 commandments) to accept Judaism meant (unlike the whole ancient world around them) restrictions in your sex life, many woman you can't marry, can't be with your wife for about half of each month etc. most animals and birds and fish can't be eaten and the list goes on. Point being it's not just privileges. You said quote "The Torah is a bunch of stories derived from ancient Sumerian and Egyptian myths. " with two links to prove it. The first link proved it by showing how there exists the story of the flood before the time of the bible and there are so many details that are the same, so we see the bible was just copying ancient myths. You are obviously not familiar with bible criticism, defense etc. because what's amazing about the great flood, is that every society on earth has this story with them, with small differences (like the name of the g-d doing the flood) and this is normally brought as a proof not a refutation. The second link the article was taken off the Washington post apparently because the article was wrong, it said that a 4,000 year old tablet was found with measurements for the ark etc. which disproves the story because it's before it's supposed to have happened. The mistake being that 4,000 years ago is after the story. I have very few characters left so I'll be very brief. You want to make Judaism less believable than other religions because it doesn't believe in evolution which is a "fact" This is a debate in its own right but that's completely not true, evolution has never graduated from theory to fact, from speculative science to empirical science. Regarding the age of the world, indeed Judaism believes that the world is less than 10,000 years old (5774 to be exact). You say that that makes Judaism not very believable, because science has proven the age of the world to be billions of years old. To respond to this i have two major points: A. There's one major factor not being taken into account when we calculate the age of the world that is that g-d didn't create a new world, it says in the bible that g-d created a fully matured world. Adam wasn't created a baby to grow up, rather he was created a fully grown up man. So when we measure the light years it takes for the light to reach us as well as almost all of the methods we are working with this kind of methodology. B. I send you to 2 links each one brilliantly shows how discussing the age of the world is not empirical science rather built on certain assumptions which themselves cannot be substantiated . http://www.chabad.org... . https://answersingenesis.org... Now I literally have no space for Egyptian issue but just 3 points 1: The vast majority of recorded Egyptian history is in tombs and temples (99% of personal stuff on papyrus and the like just didn't survive) tell me how many Egyptian defeats are recorded there and we could have a conversation the answer is basically none, and the Jews crushed Egypt. 2:There was a group in Egypt called the habiru and the Jews are called the Hebrews . http://www.israel-a-history-of.com... 3:Read this papyrus it's very likely talking about the plagues . https://archive.org... Voters you don"t have to think Judaism is actually right to vote, and agree, that it has a leg up over other religions