archaeology and evolution

Maybe the dinosaurs didn't like bedtime stories, or if they did it was just an oral tradition. I know. It's crazy. And there is no record from the soldiers either that it didn't rain pineapples, that the earth didn't turn into Dijon mustard, that people didn't start sneezing kangeroos.

It is commonly accepted that the Gospels were not written until several decades after Jesus died.So it wasn't exactly as if the story of the resurection was on CNN or in the papers the next day!If there really were any soldiers guarding Jesus' tomb (why would the Romans bother to have soliders guarding the tomb of a crucified Jew anyway?), the chances of those particular soldiers being remotely interested in some other Jews flapping about saying Jesus has risen from the dead, the chances of them understanding what the locals were saying, the chances of them even being aware of what was going on in other parts of the city, the chances of them being literate enough to write down their own thoughts, and the chances of any scribblings of theirs surviving to the present day, are astonishingly remote.Furthermore, if they were going to write down anything at all, it would be the incredible experience of seeing someone rise from the dead and some angels roll back the stone that sealed his tomb.What is incredible, if the resurection and other miracles were true, is that NOBODY wrote down anything at all about these events until several DECADES later!

And if the vast majority of those around at the time did not agree there was any resurrection, or at least did not witness anything, they wouldn't bother to write anything down as long as they were still alive in order to contradict a few people they probably regarded as somewhat eccentric.A soldier given the lowly job of guarding a grave would not be thinking, "We'd better write down something to contradict what these nutters are saying, because in twenty or thirty years time when most of us are dead these rumours might still be going round and someone might write them down as if they were true, and in 2000 years time people might still believe it."And the soldiers would definitely not have written anything down in the extremely likely event that they never existed.