The book of Deuteronomy was clearly written before Israel had crossed the Jordan:

Deuteronomy 4:46 On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:

  47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

  49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

Also, the LORD had Moses write about himself, numerous times, in the third person, in Exodus and Numbers.

And there was so much detailed prophetic pronouncements in Deuteronomy 28.

That it is not hard to believe that the LORD would have Moses finish the book, writing about his own immediately impending death and burial by the LORD.

Over the years, I have known that some had a hard time accepting that Moses wrote all of the first five books of the Bible.

Or that Daniel wrote all of the future prophecies in the book of Daniel, or that Isaiah wrote chapters 40 - 66 of the book of Isaiah.

And I have also known those who had a hard time accepting the account of Jonah being swallowed.

Also, over the years, I've noticed many different printers have maps in the back of Bibles, which seem to have the path of the Exodus completely avoiding the deeper water of the Red Sea.

They either have it marked going through a shallow finger, or marsh lands, or some shown going north of the water altogether.

The only reason any of us can believe these things, is because Jesus has given us the faith to believe it.

We're certainly nowhere near as intelligent, or as educated, as the scholars.

We did not figure those things out on our own, either.

No, rather, we saw things in the book, and believed them as written, no matter how preposterous that seemed to worldly logic or reason.

In that sense, we are more like little children, than scholars.

But is that so bad?

Prior to the gospel coming to me, I was practically an "evangelist" for evolution.

Everywhere I turned, I either tried to convince people about evolution, or to further convince those who already did.

I used to pickup hitchhikers, and would begin with the big bang or primordial ooze, and go from there, spending the whole ride convincing them about evolution.

All my friends where I went to school, believed the same way as I did, about evolution.

I got saved going from the lab, where I worked, to school, on the expressway, to the evening classes I had in grad school.

However, as I walked to the table where my friends and I studied before our first classes, I made a confession to all of them.

Some were in the physics department, some in electrical engineering, and some in chemical engineering.

I told them that I had just asked Jesus to save me, and that I believe that the LORD created everything in only 6 days and rested the 7th.

I have no idea why I said that to them at that moment, or why I suddenly believed so differently, but I did.

I think it was a gift that Jesus gave to me, the moment I asked him to save me.

My story is different from that of someone who grew up in church, and then went to university.

Where someone showed them pictures of bones or rock strata, telling them that they absolutely could not believe that the world was only 6,000 years old.

No doubt they were devastated and confused, until someone presented them with the gap theory, or theistic evolution.

I cannot go along with that way of thinking.

I'm only thankful that Jesus did with me, the way he did it.

I only believe what I believe, because I think that it was simply given to me, that's all.