You were not there when Balam's animal saw the angel. You have no science to offer on the matter.
First, you don’t understand science, nor how it work.
Science don’t do supernatural.
And science don’t do fictional stories, which is what fables and allegories are in Genesis 3 & Numbers 22.
Science only do falsifiable explanations, eg hypotheses or theories, meaning explanations that can be tested and verified via observations, eg finding and examining evidences and test results of repeatable experiments.
The evidences or experiments -
- will (A) either refute the hypothesis/theory,
- or will (B) verify/validate the hypothesis/theory.
There are no evidences to find in either Genesis 3 or Numbers 22.
Neither stories are falsifiable, therefore it is pointless trying to finding evidences for science to examine.
So, you are right, science has “nothing to offer” here...but not for the reasons why you think science cannot do; science cannot “test” or “observe” to unfalsifiable of fabricated stories.
Second, you really don’t see that you have made a complete fool of yourself, when you wrote this:
You were not there when Balam's animal saw the angel. You have no science to offer on the matter. No knowledge. No witnesses. Nothing. Only a totally uninformed opinion.
Numbers 22 isn’t history. In fact, none of the books from Genesis to Deuteronomy, which have traditionally ascribed Moses, as author, there are no original sources of these 5 books in the Late Bronze Age, eg c 1550 - 1050 BCE.
There are no stone or clay tablets, no leather or hide parchments, no papyrus scrolls, that exist and survive in the Late Bronze Age.
The oldest surviving texts of the any biblical stories, are only found in 7th and later, so basically from possibly King Josiah reign to the construction of the “Second Temple”.
There is silver amulet found in the caveat Ketef Hinnom, which archaeologists has named the “Silver Scroll”. This amulet was found with other objects in the cave that served as a tomb, has been dated to around the time of King Josiah’s reign to before Jerusalem has fallen to the Neo-Babylonian army, so roughly between 640 and 587 BCE.
The Silver Scroll contained inscriptions found in the passage from Numbers 6, the Priestly Blessings (verses 6:24-26):
“Numbers 6:24-26” said:
[May] Adonai bless you, and guard you
[May] Adonai make His face shine unto you, and be gracious to you
[May] Adonai lift up His face unto you, and give to you peace
There are no earlier texts older than this evidence (Silver Scroll).
Since there are no older biblical writings found from 1550 to 650 BCE, one would assume that the biblical stories were known until the 7th century BCE.
So based on what we know about Josiah’s reign, he had commissioned reform that his people (from kingdom of Judah) to only worship the one god, hence he began having priests and scribes to create a national stories with national heroes (from Adam to King Solomon) of the Jews “history”, except that this isn’t history.
Moses is a myth, because there were no man to write the events that occurred from Genesis to Deuteronomy.
So, you are right, there are “No knowledge. No witnesses. Nothing.” There are no original composition of the book of Numbers in the Late Bronze Age. No one wrote this book in the 2nd half of the 2nd millennium BCE, therefore, “No witnesses”.
If there are “No witnesses”, then how can there be “history”?
But history isn’t really about being eyewitnesses’ accounts, but what written sources can be verified.
So for the exodus to occur as narrated in Exodus, eg God speaking through the burning bush, the plagues that hit Egypt, the liberation of Israelites from slavery, their trek to Sinai receiving the 10 Commandments, the 40 years in wilderness, before the narrative in Joshua of invasion in Canaan.
Well, even if we left out all the events of miracles, and just focused on events such as the liberation from slavery, their movements in wilderness, and the eventual invasion of Canaan, then -
- you have no original texts that were contemporary to these events, you have no independent sources to these narratives from Egypt about keeping hundreds of thousands of slaves and their mass liberation,
- and none (meaning no independent records) from ancient Canaan about Israelites invading their land,
- and lastly you have no physical evidences of a large population living in Sinai Peninsula and in Edom and Moab.
If Sinai was indeed wilderness at that time, there wouldn’t be enough food and water, as the censuses in Numbers indicated (only fighting men were counted).
Yes, I know about the manna story, but that’s like stories for children.
Take for instance, before Moses was born, the Egyptian king enslaved the Israelites, and having them build Pithom and Rameses, which Egyptians would have called it Pi-Atum and Pi-Rameses.
There are records that these 2 cities were built during the reign of Ramesses II (reign 1279 - 1213 BCE), the 3rd king from the 19th dynasty (1292 - 1189 BCE). And Pi-Ramesses means the “House of Ramesses”), hence this city was named after Ramesses II.
Pi-Ramesses or the biblical Rameses, has been identified to be either Tell el-Dab'a or Qantir, both showed evidences that they were dated to 19th dynasty or around 1250 BCE.
My point here about when Pi-Ramesses was built, it was built a couple of centuries AFTER Jericho had became deserted around 1570 BCE.
But in Exodus and in Joshua, Jericho occurred some 120 years AFTER Moses’ birth, which is the exact opposite to archaeology of Pi-Ramesses and Jericho.
Should I believe in the books of Exodus and Joshua or should I believe the archaeology of Jericho and Pi-Ramesses. I think the later.
Pi-Ramesses lost its importance in the next dynasty, and much of the stones were shipped, to build Tanis in the 21st dynasty, and Pi-Ramesses has become nothing more than some villages by the 5th century BCE.
Anyway, you clearly don’t understand how history work.