---An article was written by D.H. French on the specific relationship between archaeology and religion.^[1]

---French's article concerned itself with prehistory which he indicated "is open to dramatic reconstructions based on subjective value-judgments."^[2]

---He ascribes this tendency to fill pages with all kinds of reconstructions on the origins of religion in all its aspects as due to an absence of written texts since it was the period before literacy.

---Since the origins of religion in the past was described without the aid of written sources to serve as check and balance to the theories proposed, it means that very "dramatic interpretations" resulted about "exempli gratia magic, superstition, belief, practice, symbolic decoration, theology, monotheism, polytheism, ceremonial, festivals, celebrations" etc.^[3]

---The article of French serves to illustrate the need of the Text to stand side by side with the Tel attempting to interpret the limited, fragmented, selected "past" and its religion.

---He asked the legitimate question whether it is possible "to extrapolate from a literate Second Millennium to the pre-literate Sixth Millennium and reconstruct a sequence of religious development?"^[4]

---This critical analysis of French to attempt to carry into a period before literacy, the results of the period during which literacy was prevalent, is worth looking at. French contend that there is a danger that the nature of the religious traditions in the Classical period may itself be misunderstood, and therefore "there is a need to state the premises on which all reconstructions or extrapolations are based."^[5]

---Hardly any researcher states his/her premises frontal and consciously clear.

---The next question that one should ask pursuing in the line of thinking of that of French, is where does researchers gather the data to set up the criteria for investigating the Second Millennium, the First and any era for that matter.

---In the final analysis we are back at the limitations of research, namely that all researchers are sitting at the edge of the "big, ugly ditch" that separates the past from the present.

---It is known by analysts that the baggage one carries to the ditch forms part of the analytical theory of the researcher.

---There are as many results as there are researchers upon the face of the earth.

---This could be one reason why latest books speak of science as an "art".

---Everyone perceives his/her own way and collect and arrange data according to the norms or criteria that he/she perceives will be able to uphold the status quo amidst the burocracy of academics in the same science.

---The consensus of the burocracy of academics is attained by its own science-political and other power tools that functions to impress upon a learnhungry society with their massmedia what is "appropriate, modest and expected."

---I do not belong to AASOR, BASOR, SBL, Evangelical Society, Catholic League, but you do not need to belong to any of them to realize the major problems all of them have to cope with.

---Hebrews were the only nation that I know of, who had a strict recordkeeping agenda of events and times in chronological order.

---Ellen White said, you have nothing to fear for the future except you forget how God has led us in the past. Nice right?

---So do not come to me with stories of millions of years ago or 50 thousand years ago.

---Noah’s Flood was in the year 2692 BC according to strict Masoretic Text chronology using also Paul statement of Abraham in Galatians 3:17-19 not as Abraham Seed but the seed of Joseph, the last one who confirmed the covenant. This is the key to unlock the proper chronology of the Old Testament. Many scholars failed in their calculations ending up putting Abraham in the time of Hammurabi in 1798 BC!

---Secondly, do not use Edwin Thiele’s 4^th year of Solomon as 966/965 BC. Use William Shea’s as 970 BC. It is the way I have it too, Julius Nam, Richard Davidson. That means 2692 BC for the Flood. Thanks.

---Now, because the Flood covered all mountains about ten meters above, therefore no culture survived in pre-Flood eras. Sorry millions of years theorists. Sorry Uniformists. Thanks to Hebrew historiography.

---Now one can align the sequential data and park them orderly after 2692 BC and catch up with literate sources around 2400 BC easily. Nice right? The rest remains untouched and the same using the article by W. Ward on Egyptian chronology.

---Everything starts to make sense and the Hebrew historiography of the Masoretic Text becomes a sure guide for history of the past, and I say, for the present as well using the prophets.