Theyve got some front

[bazwillrun]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...world-europe-19645273

coming out with this

"Jim West, a professor and Baptist pastor in Tennessee, said: "A statement on a papyrus fragment isn't proof of anything. It's nothing more than a statement 'in thin air', without substantial context."

yet look at what they believe in with even less proof or evidence of any sort whatsover, just a load of carefully selected and edited handmedown fairytales and stories, hundreds of years after the supposed events took place

[Zeuhl]

Totally agree baz

I hope Mr West would agree that none of his 'Bible Study' sessions have any more substance than this

[jno]

he's right, it's evidence rather than proof. Ditto the Bible, which he doesn't mention.

Nonetheless, the latter might still be true, and the former not; or both might be true; or both not. No proof of any of these things.

[Duncer]

It's all about "faith".

[ichkeria]

Proof and faith are not the same thing. Therefore the analogy, regardless of what you feel about religion, is spurious.

However, despite seeing it written down, I refuse to believe there is a real person called "Wolf-Peter Funk" - Sounds like a modern version of Prokofiev ...

[andy-hughes]

Religious faith depends on an ability to believe what you choose to believe.

A hghly developed sense of selection comes with the package.

[ludwig]

"A statement on a papyrus fragment isn't proof of anything"

I disagree. It's proof that papyrus makes a decent writing material.

[Zeuhl]

^lol