Is this evidence the Bible is reliable?

[@kamilgregor]

Everyone, write a Bible verse on a piece of paper. Congatulations, you have just made a new Biblical manuscript and therefore have made the Bible a little bit more reliable. What a time to be alive.

[@velocibadgery]

I have never thought of it this way! It is absolutely amazing that this thought never occurred to me. Thank you very much!

[@NorbertKasko]

​@Bible-ChristianI was in a religious school and they told us a story that there was a prison with hundreds of apostles or saints or whatever in it and they all wrote down exactly the same manuscript (the Bible) in their prison cells. That's the proof that the Bible is inspired by God. It's a nice story, but I think the preacher just made it up

[@chrispope7486]

@Bible-Christian you can’t demonstrate that the super natural exists, that a god exists, that this god cares to interact with humanity, that he communicated to prophets to write a book, etc. so why are you lying?

[@kamilgregor]

@Bible-Christian Oh, I don't mean making up a new verse, I mean creating new manuscripts of existing verses, which obviously are inspired.

[@dantallman5345]

Yes! The average person thinks of a manuscript as a handwritten, largely complete document (or piece of music). I was shocked when I learned that when it comes to Biblical manuscripts, tiny shards the size of credit cards are counted as manuscripts, the same as largely complete books and codices.

[@welcometonebalia]

Blessed are the cheesemakers!

[@jujujudio]

Amen 🧀

[@byrondickens]

Its not meant to be taken literally. It obviously refers to any manufacturer of dairy products.

[@Zahaqiel]

I mean, there are 1,757 manuscript sources for the Iliad, so I guess we gotta just accept that Apollo sent a plague to afflict the Achaean army because Agamemnon refused to return Chryseis? And Achilles was an actual dude? And Aphrodite really did assist Paris in kidnapping Helen, the wife of the Spartan king Menelaus, and also to escape death at Menelaus' hands in the duel outside Troy to get him back into bed with Helen? ...I really need to write more copies of my autobiography where I conquered Mars and became king of the Solar System, if that's how it works.

[@karldehaut]

🎯👍😂 Great is really great....👏

[@ronkelley5348]

Precisely.... 🙂

[@ChristerAnd]

👍👍👍

[@RyanJones-ew8vm]

What happened when you became king.

[@Zahaqiel]

@@RyanJones-ew8vm A pretty cool coronation ceremony.

[@jdmac44]

Ah yes, and ending with a hyper-speculative mass mind-reading. "'Cause they just wanna sin!!" I didn't see that super power in the spiritual gifts, but apparently nearly all believers have it!

[@pricklypear7497]

Dan continuing to dismantle fundamentalist reasoning. Keep it up.

[@derekstaff]

@@pricklypear7497 “reasoning”

[@bryonstevenson1084]

What 😂 Y'all goofy

[@jenniferhunter4074]

Let's spin it this way. Dan is correcting the sinners who are bearing false witness. Aka one of the ten commandments. The video creator who lied is a sinner. A criminal. How can anyone trust that liar? If he wants to play bible is awesome, I have no problem applying the bible to the sinners. After all, isn't it the Christians who just want to sin? Why are they pointing out specks when they have tree trunks blinding their eyesight? I'm talking really really big tree trunks. The kind that are so massive that it would take days to cut through.

[@derekstaff]

@@frogmanvc what does that have to do with anything?

[@derekstaff]

@@frogmanvc still don’t see what this has to do with anything. Two faiths with tenuous reasoning/rationality.

[@VulcanLogic]

Four tiny scraps from the mid to late 2nd century, 50 from the 3rd. No complete New Testament until the 4th. No complete Old Testament in Hebrew until the 11th.

[@Ex_christian]

Yep. One more thing that Christian cultists lie about

[@Shuji_the_great]

I just said to myself today "That's enough monty python reference for today." And here's Dan with a monty python fit 😄.

[@kurtmeyer93]

And now for something completely different

[@bobstitzenberger1834]

I did NOT see that coming

[@Robert_Browne]

Nothing compares to the job security of correcting people on the internet.

[@jerryvergeront8018]

Great post, as usual. I only have one thing to add: “Domus? Nominative? Go home? This is motion towards, isn’t it boy?”

[@jesseterpstra5472]

dom-UM. UUUUUUMMMM...

[@ArkadiBolschek]

Splitter!!!

[@stephenlitten1789]

A friend of mine suffers PTSD every time he watches that scene. He learned Latin in the 60s

[@mel3256]

The complete lack of logical reasoning among millions of people is terrifying....the sweeping claims like thise are exactly what made me start questioning my faith when i was in the Christian cult..i still feel shame and embarrassment for not questioning it ealier. Thank god for going away to university for many of us. Once you leave the bubble and open the door if logic, there is no going back...

[@therongjr]

The last claim that people willfully don't find the Bible reliable because they don't want to be accountable to God is offensive.

[@DoloresLehmann]

Not only offensive, but also wrong.

[@W45P.]

Norhing to be accountable to in the first place.

[@deadpiratetattoo2015]

I'm not accountable to your superstition. There is no want to it. And you being offended is just ignorance and virtue signaling.

[@Ex_christian]

Who wants to be accountable to make believe sky daddies????

[@oldstix]

@@deadpiratetattoo2015 Pretending to speak for a higher power is always dishonest. And people are responsible to each other, not the gods.

[@user-gk9lg5sp4y]

Hail Cesar and everything, sir!

[@alexmcd378]

How does he keep finding the most obnoxious apologists possible? They're at least insufferable as Craig, with less than a quarter of the experience

[@williamwatson4354]

You sir, are a member of the Peoples front of Judea.

[@sketchygetchey8299]

He shall be called Dan that is called Dan!

[@jesseterpstra5472]

Whatever happened to the popular front? Oh, he's over there. SPLITTER!

[@digitaljanus]

So an ancient text whose communication was prioritized by a continent-wide institution for over 1,000 years has remained fairly consistent since our first complete copies around the 4th century? What does that have to do with the validity of the ideas within? We have fairly consistent texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey going back farther than that, there aren't millions of people still worshipping Zeus and Apollo. "You need to obey _my_ preferred moral code because this book has been the same for over 1,000 years." Um, not if your book is full of nonsense I don't.

[@karldehaut]

I can add that a main point of Islam is identical to the claim of the Christian apologist...😂

[@DRayL_]

I find it rather peculiar when these Christian KZbinrs act so arrogant about a topic they don't really know. This is an example. He's acting like "he knows exactly what is true", when he doesn't at all. And those who follow his channel will blindly clap their hands at his performance and mindlessly agree, acting like he gave a "slam dunk on those who critique the Bible".

[@Redh4x_real]

You should see Sam shamoun 💀💀 hes at another level of bullshitting

[@DRayL_]

@@Redh4x_real Thanks for the suggestion!

[@karldehaut]

This is a classic case of self-comfort and confirmation of dogma, it works well for sects whether religious or political. It's fascinating.

[@DRayL_]

@@karldehaut It truly is!

[@jameschapman6559]

Over 45,000 Christian denominations, over 45,000 doctrinal interpretations.

[@elite8248]

Wait really? Edit: I checked and it’s true there’s at least 30,000 denominations but most of them are small.

[@hardwork8395]

@@elite8248so you are giving the size matters argument, but for religious beliefs?

[@elite8248]

@@hardwork8395 wdym? I didn’t argue for anything

[@hardwork8395]

@@elite8248 you said most of the 30,000 were small. Not sure if you were saying that they didn’t really count for anything, but I was just being tongue-in-cheek.

[@sdlorah6450]

God sent mankind a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who suffered and died for our sins, was buried, and rose again the third day, all in accordance with the scriptures, that people might be forgiven their sins and reconciled to God through faith in him (see 1 John 4:14, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, 2 Corinthians 5:18-21). All people are sinners and face God's judgment of death (see Romans 3:23, 6:23a). Out of love for men, God has provided one way for them to be spared his wrath, through faith in his Son and in his atoning sacrifice (see Isaiah 53). The big numbers in your comment should be understood in light of God's word: men are either on the broad road that leads to destruction or have entered on that narrow way that leads to life (see Matthew 7:13-14). Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me (John 14:6).

[@Yoandrys23]

People called Romanis they go the house 🤣🤣🤣

[@SteampunkGent]

Is that like hitting a home run?

[@corybanter]

First, love the fit on this one (Life of Brian reference). Second, that dude in the video may want to spend a little more time watching Dan's videos than he does on brushing his beard. He may learn something.

[@MrWeezer55]

Guy sure loves his beard.

[@bristolrovers27]

It is a pretty good beard

[@theColdFramer]

Great video Dan - well as they say one man’s doctrine is another man’s heresy

[@OrigamiNegroni]

Omg. I went on a date with this dude once 😂😂🥴 so glad it ended at 1.

[@Wertbag99]

Which dude? Dan or the apologist?

[@OrigamiNegroni]

@Wertbag99 I apologize! The apologist. I never had the pleasure of meeting Dan.

[@MusicalRaichu]

The original text said "Romanians eat donuts" but it was mistranslated when Latin scholars got involved who were sure it was about them. Only corrupted versions survive.

[@munbruk]

5,800 manuscripts containing more variances than words. Yeah, a great reliability. According to Bart Ehrman, there could be 500,000 variances and discrepancies, a world record.

[@elshuku1]

And yet somehow the message is still the same 🫢🫢🫢😂

[@munbruk]

@@elshuku1 No it can't be

[@elshuku1]

@@munbruk the variances are minimal my brother. Actually. All translations now days show you the variances on the footnotes. Its not a big deal.

[@munbruk]

@@elshuku1 The NT is not inspired, small portion of it was inpired

[@elshuku1]

@@munbruk that’s has nothing to do with the variances. I believe it was though

[@benjaminlesue1372]

I'm gonna brush my beard so I seem more credible.

[@kirstencorby8465]

He's really proud that beard. Strange times we live in, when fundamentalists and hipsters look the same.

[@michaeljames4509]

That guy looking smug while he combs his beard like he really did something there. 😂

[@karldehaut]

The shirt is 😂. What surprises me among the readings of the Bible, here the gospels, is the particular position of the USA. The simple fact that many Bible scholars, sometimes self-proclaimed, support the innerance and univocality of the texts is, how to put it, strange for a European academic. This kind of approach is considered, I don't want to hurt anyone, propaganda. The overwhelming majority of Bible scholars, including theologians, share and support Dan's approach. The fact is that certain topics and approaches are typically an American field that in Europe would not even be considered meeting university requirements. However, for a historian of religions or a sociologist it is a fascinating subject of study.

[@MusicalRaichu]

Thanks so much for all your efforts. Much appreciated.

[@timothymalone7067]

Thanks as always!

[@bobstitzenberger1834]

The Monty python reference makes me want to see an episode describing how much of Life of Brian was historical. I liked the multiple messiahs.

[@tomjay63]

Theology and Biblical scholarship are enemies of religious fundamentalism. Keep up the great work!

[@VioletWonders]

The reliability of the Bible is my favorite topic that you cover. Thank you! Would love to hear in depth about this from you!

[@petercollins7730]

How can anyone say the bible is reliable, let alone inerrant, when they can't even agree on how many books it has? Is it the 66 book bible that is reliable, or the 70 book bible, or the 72 (or 73; even Catholics can't agree on whether they split Jeremiah) book bible, or 81-88 books? It's comical to see these claims being made about a book that no one agrees on the basic structure and contents.

[@Ex_christian]

It’s the Christian cult way tho! None can agree out of the 40,000 Christian cult denominations. The Bible is myth and they’ve given ZERO Demonstrable Evidence to back up their lies

[@jesseterpstra5472]

People called Romans goes the house

[@BillyR1968]

Danny boy,🎶 whatcha gonna do🎶 whatcha gonna do🎶 whatcha gonna do when we . . . ? Love that song. It's almost like it was written for these times. Do you like that song, Danny booiiii ?

[@Nbovfm11]

Crazy… how popular that is and was. There is nothing alike.

[@Gideonslc]

This is awesome!

[@MarcosElMalo2]

What does reliable mean in this context? Is there a technical definition for reliable? Edit: Another question is raised at the end. What does the Bible have to do with “accountability to God”? That would be something between the individual and God. The Bible can’t force the individual to be accountable, no matter if it’s “reliable” or not. Or is the creator suggesting that the Bible contains the new contract that a Christian has agreed to when they become a Christian? (How many Christians read the Bible before agreeing to the new contract? How many have read the fine print or understand all the clauses of the contract? That’s the only sense I can tease out from the Bible making one accountable to God. If the New Testament is a contract, and the individual breaks the contract, God can make the individual accountable by enforcing the contract. How much of this is spelled out in the Bible and how much is just taking liberties with the text and/or making shit up?

[@dannyboyakadandaman504furl9]

Well done !

[@andypeterson9630]

Thank you, Dan.

[@Atheist-gy7wp]

🤙 Thank you for sharing your knowledge! The only "thing" i know is true, because i experience it, is THE HUMAN BRAIN IS FRICKEN AMAZING!

[@johnvanmanen3149]

No, our brain is stupid, we just want to make ourselves believe that we are amazing, every single one of us is the best and being itself.. thats all.

[@Atheist-gy7wp]

@@johnvanmanen3149 My brain is amazing! Yours, very well, may be stupid.

[@johnvanmanen3149]

@@Atheist-gy7wp or you are to stupid to know you are stupid and i am just smart enough to know that i am stupid.... lol

[@karldehaut]

Couldn't agree more

[@karldehaut]

@@johnvanmanen3149 I advise you (if you want) to read Fundamentals of Cognitive Science Minds, Brain, Magic, and Evolution by Thomas Hardy Leahey There are other books but this is the last one I read so I remember it.

[@xarchist]

These guys need to define what they mean by reliable.

[@Tmanaz480]

People love to speak in percentages when throwing BS. There's something about that % sign that they think makes them sound more authoritative.

[@scienceexplains302]

“Misquoting Jesus” by Ehrman is a good book on the subject.

[@williamestes629]

A priesthood who's job is to preserve texts and benefits from doing so. Not to mention that Christianity is based on the idea of not being held accountable.

[@derekstaff]

Oh sure, you’ll get a shirt about Brian’s attempted graffiti, but you won’t get one about the wife of Pilates’ good friend.

[@jesseterpstra5472]

She has a wife, you know... do you know what she's called? 🤣🤣🤣

[@StvdiaTheologica]

@@jesseterpstra5472 Incontinentia... Incontinentia Buttocks.

[@Merrick]

i doubt it, but i'll listen

[@Redh4x_real]

💀 he's a scholar of the Bible and Religion

[@karldehaut]

On the one hand Dan, an academic specializing in biblical studies who speaks Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Aramaic who masters the theories of understanding and interpretation of texts based on data and on the other an apologist who serves as soup with fundamentalists to comfort them in their dogmas... Ah yes, a detail, when Dan makes a mistake he corrects it in the following video, even to the point of making an entire video of it. I've never seen that from apologists, I've never seen it, to my knowledge.

[@sketchygetchey8299]

“People called Romanes, they go the house?”

[@timefreedomtv]

Finally. A place to get some truth. Thank you brother.

[@drlegendre]

Ugh, I'm really tired of the "so many manuscripts! " argument! It sounds so good at first, but it's almost totally meaningless in practice.

[@joeyarrazolo5227]

Actually it’s quite meaningful. The problem, in my opinion, is like Dan always says “what does it mean and how do you know it means that”?

[@lloydnicholls1439]

Bloody Romans... What did they ever do for us?

[@tw3235]

LOL HELL NO!!

[@BY7ER_]

fire T shirt btw bro

[@Nero-Caesar]

Why fit check at the end lol but another killer video thanks

[@Shin-Shoryuken]

Hi Dan, I like your channel and videos, but it would be nice if you could provide sources either in your description or just point them out in your video so people can look them up. Thank you.

[@work3753]

There are some BIG textual pieces that are disputed. Like the appearance of the risen Jesus to his disciples in Mark or The story of the adulteress ("Let he who is without sin") in Matthew or Paul saying to Timothy that women shouldn't speak in church or that all scripture is inspired. And of course we have very little to suggest that revelations was the same author as any other book and is not reasonably written by any "special" person. If you removed every verse that is disputed in one way or another or is most most likely a forgery like 2nd Timothy. You'll end up with a very short text and it will be missing many of the concepts(maybe not whole doctrines) that Christians rely on. But Dan is right on this one. Its not like the trinity, original sin, immaculate conception, immortal soul, rapture, layers of heaven and hell, biblical innerrancy, anti-abortion, homophobia and saint-hood are in the text anyways, so its probably not gonna make a difference.

[@BramptonAnglican]

Fundamentalists will be angry.

[@AlwaysWondering56]

They stay angry

[@byrondickens]

Sad because the real data just makes the Bible richer and more meaningful.

[@amaayaah]

I want to mention that the trinity is mentioned twice in the Quran as blasphemy. Yet, the quran came at 6th century CE. So it might means the concept of the doctrine of the trinity might be much earlier than 9th century CE.

[@rohag735]

An omnipotent being creates all. This being possesses knowledge beyond human understanding. There is a divine plan for humanity. A command is given to both man and woman, which they fail to uphold. The divine allows the fallen man to document His narrative. This story is then conveyed and transcribed by others, long after the events. With age, my acceptance of the Bible as entirely accurate, devoid of any errors or alterations over time, has waned.

[@EricMcLuen]

So the evidence is that we have a lot of copies that match? Does that mean Grimm's Gairy Tales are also reliable historical documents?

[@Mercadian]

So is Harry Potter in English (the original language); all the differences are between British and American spelling.

[@fredsmith2067]

Check out Papyrus 66 and the work of Elizabeth Schrader.

[@Cloudryder]

How much did the Samaritan Pentateuch differ from the Masoretic text? Has that been incorporated into today’s text?

[@herronwills9830]

Just Acts exists in two recensions that are more like 90% similar than 99%.

[@BooleanUnionStudios]

Anybody got a link to that table of the breakdown of manuscript ages?

[@ufpride83]

Repeating a lie accurately over and over and over again in an impressive manner doesn’t make the lie a truth. Having a lot of copies of a lie doesn’t make it a truth.

[@Ex_christian]

But that is the Christian cult way….. to continually lie to make those lies truth eventually….maybe……. I don’t know a Christian cultist who can tell the truth

[@Bob20011492]

When one begins to really dig into the text of the entire Bible, it becomes fairly obvious that the conceptualization of God has developed over the centuries into the doctrine we have today about the personality and attributes of that one God. Starting from a number of gods, over time the ideas about God have been simplified and somewhat streamlined into omni-characteristics, the ultimate superlatives. One of these seems to be that God is unchanging. What really denies this attribute to me is the fact that we have an OLD testament, the mechanics of which seem to have failed, and a NEW testament, with a newer, BETTER mechanism. Beyond this fact, there's the story of God being disgusted with the (unexpected?) failure of (almost all of) his original batch of image-bearing critters, and a mind to either trash the whole batch, or at least keep some of the better examples and begin again. Would an omni-everything deity need to do that? These are the kinds of thoughts that have been coming to me lately. I can't help but wonder if the whole edifice of Christian theology is as rickety as it seems to be, and the only thing holding it up is the reluctance of a LOT of believers and apologists to let it collapse and then start over with something different that recognizes the way the biblical corpus has developed over time.

[@AMoniqueOcampo]

Quantity does not give evidence to quality! I actually heard this argument from apologetics before.

[@byrondickens]

I don't know. Mine is 100% reliable. Every time I crack it open the same words are right there on the paper just like always....

[@villageroadgranite]

UBS IV in the hiz ouse!

[@ArkadiBolschek]

ROMANES EUNT DOMUS!!! ✊

[@jasonsmall5602]

Ooh, 4k HDR. Is that new?

[@brentwalker8596]

That content creator is obviously more concerned with looking "cool" than speaking truth.

[@JopJio]

So, 94% of the manuscripts are over 800/900 years later than Jesus. And of course the content creator doesn't mention the over 600.000 differences or the fact that we know that the books don't go back to Jesus. And its even more worse when look at the Ot

[@h2obordrbush]

So since I am dumb, what does the shirt mean? Dan is a tease!

[@OldMotherLogo]

It is a reference to the film Life of Brian.

[@h2obordrbush]

@@OldMotherLogo thanks! I haven't ever heard of that movie, but I can look into it now. Thanks again!

[@davidthenewtheologian7757]

Doesn’t it say the father is greater than I ? Curious to know how this was fought over ?

[@NielMalan]

0:09 I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You don't have 8 500 manuscripts, you have 8 500 hand-written copies.

[@Phylaetra]

I wonder - is there less variance in the text of various books of the new testament than there are in the text of the books of Euclid's Elements? Or De Rerum Natura? Or Commentarii de Bello Civili? I would expect that, with items requiring less doctrinal interpretation might have fewer edits - of course, I would expect some variation since these were all copied by hand for centuries. What I am getting at is the claim that the Bible has been transmitted with greater fidelity than any other ancient document. Of course - that is, in one sense, absolutely wrong, since we have a number of original ancient documents that we can just look at (inscriptions in stone, all of the cuneiform tablets, etc.) But - for documents that we don't have originals for, how close do we get? When I look at my critical edition of the Iliad, there's pages and pages of alternate sources and notes on every page indicating variations. My Loeb edition of De Rerum Natura mentions a number of source copies, but notes are far fewer (not even every page). I am not sure that means much though - as critical apparati in various editions may not be exhaustive in any sense... And - how can one tell from something like Elements - when finding a Greek copy with any critical apparatus is very difficult (at least with the spare money I have to spend on my hobby).

[@karldehaut]

Do you know why “De rerum natura” was preserved while the numerous texts of the atomists were thrown in the trash by Christians? One hypothesis is that it is in the form of a poem and that the censors of the time did not consider burning this heretical text... Unlike Celsus, The True Word survives exclusively in quotations from Contra Celsum, a refutation written in 248 by Origen of Alexandria. Censorship is made by idiotic persons...

[@Lowlandlord]

People called the Romanes they go the house?

[@thescoobymike]

What’s the cut off year for counting the manuscripts? If I got some ink and paper rn could I add to the number?

[@BobbyHill26]

I think they stop counting at around the year 1500, as that’s about when the printing press took over

[@mansell101]

People called 'Romanes' they go to the house?

[@scottballard6176]

Dan, serious question- is there any dogma that you believe has been helpful for people?

[@karldehaut]

Golden rule perhaps?

[@Ephesians-yn8ux]

Dan you don’t talk like most Christians lol

[@stockei8480]

Does he ever call out these content creators by name, tag them, or do they otherwise see these rebuttals does anyone know?

[@OldMotherLogo]

I do not recall seeing him call out anyone by name. However, some of these folks definitely see his commentary on their material because some of them *have* called McClellan out by name and responded to his responses. Which he sometimes has responded to in turn. Look at his old ones or just stick around for awhile and you will occasionally see them.

[@josephfriedland4192]

Dan, I fail to understand why, when this subject of reliability of the NT comes up, that you are not mentioning the patristic writings of Clement, Ignatius and Polycarp. Don't these, to some extent fill in the gap you are mentioning? Would like to see you do a video on the patristic quotes to get your take on this

[@GratefulAmericans]

Is there a link to that chart?

[@larrywest42]

But this content creator _isn't interested_ in knowing the history or scholarship of the texts or the full story - the social and political environment the authors were writing in, the mythological/theological background that was shared over centuries in the Near and Middle East - I'd say he's mostly interested in his own status within his community and confirming the choices he's made.

[@AmericanSubstance]

QUESTION: Do you think there will be a second coming? If so, any idea of when? Or has it already happened?

[@irinaatanasova2335]

"The earliest manuscripts and many other ancient witnesses do not have John 7:53-8:11. " - PROOF it was edited !

[@dabeaastgame123]

Islam make more since that Christianity when it comes to God explanation

[@nathansarver]

Is the guy in the video lip syncing to someone else’s audio?

[@wobotnik]

So, no?

[@alananimus9145]

There's no database?

[@shanesullivan460]

Romans Eat Donuts!

[@SteampunkGent]

Romani ite domum

[@jacobemmanuel4772]

Is that guy using Savanofsky’s audio and editing it over a video of himself? Edit: ok yea so yea it is what I thought that bearded guy is not the content creator that originally made these claims he just edited Savanofsky’s voice over a vid of himself

[@weebunny]

You gotta be kidding me

[@markmorgan6741]

There are plenty of things in the Bible that are true. The fact that there is a God is not one of them.

[@kentthalman4459]

OK, so how reliable is the OT?

[@Ex_christian]

It’s not!

[@dmckenzie9281]

That content creator might do better to groom his beard off screen as well.

[@ericdanielski4802]

Absolutely.

[@asphalthedgehog6580]

No, there probably will never be proof. Photos, videos, audio recordings, anyone? Pierce reviewed? Well, probably billions of books are written, and most of them are stories invented by the writer. So, not a very strong case if you would defend it in court.