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I have my doubts that it is the site, but even if it was then Moses would have got rid of the carved images of the calves. I have little knowledge of what Ancient Arabia was like.
I have a lot more doubts, but they mainly relate to Wyatt's claims than the later adherents. But there's a lot more: like Egypt controlling the Sinai and Canaan at that time. The Jews who wrote Exodus didn't know that. To them, Egypt's authority ended at the East of the Delta.
I am not trying to debunk fundamentalists' long-held beliefs. That would be impossible to do. I'd have an easier job of it jumping to the moon. What I am trying to do is to warn off the silent newbies who frequent these boards and who are contemplating joining Christianity to actually see the archeological and historical evidence that Christianity is a pack of lies--a house of cards built on beach sand. No one who wants to join a religion should join it because they are fooled by cunning desperate ministers into believing that it is the one true religion founded by the true divine son of God named Jesus.
If people want to join Christianity they should do it because it offers some good tips for living, not because they fear eternal damnation and they think Jesus can save their souls. He can't. It's all pure mythological hogwash.
People become Christians for many reasons. Some people are drawn strongly to belief, and often their faith causes them inconvenience and peril. They spend time in prayer and contemplation. Some, like Dietrich Bonhoeffer have sacrificed their lives. You can’t dismiss faith as a way to lead an easier life. Far from it.
I think it best to allow people to find their own spiritual paths.
I have my doubts that it is the site, but even if it was then Moses would have got rid of the carved images of the calves. I have little knowledge of what Ancient Arabia was like.
That's a good thought but an apologist would argue that the pile of boulders is the demolition-job that Moses did. One can always come up with an apologetic. While Ancient Arabia is not as well known as Babylon or Egypt, that doesn't alter the fact that it looks like pile of boulders, they are carved with graffiti that looks to be the same sort of thing and that One carving of a bovine was selected for a cherry -picked shot to support the claim of the 'Calf altar'. In fact it doesn't. No more than the spit stone really supports the exodus, nor the Boundary - claim, nor the blackened mountains, Solomon's supposed inscribed pillars (1) or indeed Anything of the supposed 'evidence' for the Jebl laws site of the 'Moses' camp.
(1) Wyatt claimed that these were put up by Solomon on each bank of the Red Sea to commemorate the crossing. First, of course, that Solomon may have put up commemorative pillars at what he thought was the crossing - point would not prove that it was. Though it would make for an early tradition to the story (which I think was written during the Exilic period) and it was highly fishy that the 'inscribed pillar' of the East side vanished (claimed to be removed by the Authorities), but the 'inscription' only appears in the English translation, and there is no reproduction of the inscription which any half-reputable archaeologist ought to do, let alone a photograph. However there pillar (column) is on the West side - but has no inscription - not a trace, which was explained as having eroded away. At this point anyone not seeing a very fishy story must have their eyes screwed shut.
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Sorry about my rude tone. I only apologize to doubters. 
