My
very clever friends at Science Daily (much too frequent in my view) report that
they have found bones under a floor in Bulgaria that may belong to John the
Baptist.
They
do not mention who or what he was baptising under a floor in Bulgaria, but that
is not the only flaw (geddit?) in their preposterous argument. They say that
the bones are from the period in which he would have lived. According to calculations there were about a hundred
and fifty million living at that time, so quite how they have narrowed down the
odds to it being Johnny the water fetishist we are left to speculate.
This
is the problem that I found myself faced with. I am firmly on the side of the
fence of those who are fairly convinced that evolution is a proven fact. I don’t
really care too much about it, but have no problem in accepting evidence as
evidence. On this side of the fence live most of the scientific community.
There are large proportions of the scientific community who decry the views of
those who believe that God created the earth about 6000 years ago. They view
these people as silly or deluded. They are entitled to that view, but hardly enhance
their reputation or credentials by conjecturing as to the identity of some poor
bastard having a quiet kip near the Black Sea, and saying that there is a
chance that these may be the remains of someone, let alone someone whose
existence is in question.
In
short, which side of this pointless argument contains the larger proportion of
silly buggers?
Now,
if these people were really smart they would do a DNA comparison to determine
the identity of JtB. I can help them here. I have in my loft the incisors of
his brother Eric, and somewhere in the vicinity a tupperware container holding the
pickled spleen of his dear old gran.