Greetings from sunny Capetown. (Good gigs. Flying back to Blighty next Thursday.)

Is this thread still going? Wow.. Must confess, I have enjoyed some of the eloquent ways people like Don wysiwyg explain the differences between believing and enquiring, but I still think that debating with fundamentalists just encourages the buggers.

I was looking at paintings on rocks that predate the bible by a few thousand years last week. Today I was looking at petrified tree fossils millions of years old. I was listening to a person explaining cultures and belief systems that make Christianity look as modern as scientology.

So, what was all this about the bible getting it right? If this pete bloke was genuine, he would be able to debate with me instead of stating that anybody who laughs at him is insincere or has a belief system themselves. If you believe it, have the courage to try and explain it to rational people. If you are having a laugh, may I point out that some genuine people are trying, wrongly in my opinion but hey, just an opinion, to reason with you.

And that is about as impossible as any of the fairy stories in your bible.