pete keeps banging on and on and on about the past not being observable but when I challenged him by pointing out that the events depicted in the Bible are not directly observable he mumbled something about "faith". It was then that the 'penny dropped' for me. He believes that those who have faith can claim any old nonsense but those without faith have to provide evidence to support their claims. Nevertheless, I have challenged him repeatedly on this point and he resolutely ignores me and carries on with his incoherent diatribes about dinosaur bones and "Noachian deluges" and other bollocks. Let's face it chaps, we're wasting our time talking with this brainwashed numbskull.