More importantly, the countless hours of transcription has led him to conclude that the Bible is more sublime than just a bunch of stories fromthousands of yearsago.
Boy Scouts often hiked to the spot and built fires in the holes, so it wasn't known if the soot was from their visits or from use by Indians hundreds or even thousands of yearsago, Butz said.
For example, scientists can tell by the way ice crystallizes what the weather and temperature was like thousands of yearsago in ice core samples from polar regions.
In one almost comic incident a few yearsago, a judge caught in a sting operation was found throwing thousands of dollars from her balcony to incredulous neighbours as investigating police closed in.