{"id":71319,"date":"2017-07-27T17:02:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T00:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/bible-says-canaanites-were-wiped-out-by-israelites-but-scientists-just-found-their-descendants-living-in-lebanon"},"modified":"2017-07-27T17:02:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T00:02:23","slug":"bible-says-canaanites-were-wiped-out-by-israelites-but-scientists-just-found-their-descendants-living-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/bible-says-canaanites-were-wiped-out-by-israelites-but-scientists-just-found-their-descendants-living-in-lebanon","title":{"rendered":"Bible says Canaanites were wiped out by Israelites but scientists just found their descendants living in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bible-says-canaanites-were-wiped-out-by-israelites-but-scientists-just-found-their-descendants-living-in-lebanon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is a command that led the leading atheist Richard Dawkins to claim that the God of the Old Testament was \u201ca vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser \u2026 a genocidal \u2026 megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>For God had ordered the Israelites to slaughter the apparently sinful Canaanites, saying: \u201cYou shall not leave alive anything that breathes. But you shall utterly destroy them.\u201d And, according to the Bible, they did just that.<\/p>\n<p>However, a new genetic study has found that the Canaanites actually managed to survive this purge of their traditional homeland, passing on their DNA over the centuries to their numerous descendants in modern-day Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/bible-canaanites-wiped-out-old-testament-israelites-lebanon-descendants-discovered-science-dna-a7862936.html\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/bible-canaanites-w...62936.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a command that led the leading atheist Richard Dawkins to claim that the God of the Old Testament was \u201ca vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser \u2026 a genocidal \u2026 megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully\u201d. For God had ordered the Israelites to slaughter the apparently sinful Canaanites, saying: \u201cYou shall not leave alive anything that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}