(September 18, 2012 at 12:51 pm)Stimbo Wrote: It's very revealing that all the more fantastic elements of the story got considerably less fantastic the nearer they got to actual history. God's powers, the miracles, the ages of the patriarchs; once real people started to record and investigate this stuff, all the magic faded away. It's almost as though it were all mythology.
Picks up again when it comes to predicting the future as well, doesn't it

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