Did a giant meteor destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?

I WAS EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Evidence of Sodom? Meteor blast cause of biblical destruction, say scientists. Multi-disciplinary team of scientists uses 3,700-year-old archaeological evidence from Jordan’s Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project to understand end to civilization near Dead Sea (Amanda Borschel-Dan, Times of Israel).

Could be. The Bible certainly knows a tradition of a fiery destruction of the region in antiquity — antiquity for the biblical writers, not just us. That could be a distant memory of this meteoric event. Or it could just be a story. Let's see how this develops.

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