Originally Posted by Jefferson

...and once again, I'll remind you that a great deal of this is speculation. And while I'm not saying that the overall picture is wrong, I am saying that people often distort truth and/or speculate in a direction that fits their own desires.

The people who argue that you CANNOT prove that a man by the name of Jesus EVER existed, are the SAME PEOPLE who will say that we CAN PROVE what the earth's atmosphere and environment was 2 million years ago.

So let's be honest, and admit that while we can amass a great deal of VERY GOOD information NOW, we CANNOT say for certain what was going on hundreds of millions of years ago. That is NOT intellectually or scientifically honest.