Anybody who's ever studied urban legends know how easily fanciful stories get passed around, always with the "this really happened!" admonishment. You know how people like to add their own embellishments, but they swear up & down that it's a true story.
Case in point, a coworker once told me that a friend of his bought a beat up Harley Davidson motorcycle from someone for a low price, got it home and after lifting up the seat found an inscription saying that it was a special motorcycle built just for Elvis. Guy calls Graceland to confirm it and they immediately send a truck and a guy with something like half a million dollars.
Many years later I find out that it's a popular urban legend which has spread all over the place: http://www.snopes.com/autos/dream/elvis.asp
The thing is that you just can't trust secondhand eyewitness accounts, especially of something which happened 100 years ago.
Case in point, a coworker once told me that a friend of his bought a beat up Harley Davidson motorcycle from someone for a low price, got it home and after lifting up the seat found an inscription saying that it was a special motorcycle built just for Elvis. Guy calls Graceland to confirm it and they immediately send a truck and a guy with something like half a million dollars.
Many years later I find out that it's a popular urban legend which has spread all over the place: http://www.snopes.com/autos/dream/elvis.asp
The thing is that you just can't trust secondhand eyewitness accounts, especially of something which happened 100 years ago.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
