more people kept missing his target, the more hardened he became in his unbelief. There was in his voice almost a sense of “I dare you to prove my telephone theory wrong.” So I opted for a partial victory rather than the total one. “Isn’t it possible that the God who first inspired the Bible also preserved it?” Silence. “Do you see what I’m asking?” “Not really.” “Let’s just say that there is a god and that he wants to communicate with us. That’s possible, theoretically, isn’t it?” “Theoretically.”