It's possible that it happened and the records were lost. Maybe the Romans crucified a Jesus who they had no reason to believe was anything but a dangerous con artist. Maybe his few ragtag "followers" scattered the moment they took him into custody and no one really gave a shit that yet another prettyboy got nailed to a cross and died alone and ignored. Maybe the Bible is the literary equivalent of a TV movie that is "based on a true story."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
