Biblical city of Sodom was likely destroyed by an asteroid

[the_borderer]

@MikeR

Not wanting to doubt the credibility of this ‘discovery’, but… trinitite is only formed in a nuclear explosion.

Are you saying that God couldn’t nuke Sodom?

Although I have already said what I think could have happened last time BB covered this story.

Scientists found geological evidence of the Biblical destruction of Sodom

That’s about 100km away. Jericho is a lot closer and would have been trashed if the blast was that powerful, but we already know that God was happy to genocide anyone living there. The events of Joshua were about 3600 years ago. Maybe this is why the walls of Jericho fell, but it wouldn’t explain why the Israelites survived.