Ramon Casha rarely fails to bring a smile to one’s lips with his contributions. The one of June 14 was no exception. He seemed to hint at some doubts he may have about the accuracy of biblical accounts of Jesus. One reason he gives for these doubts is that “the gospels were written decades after Jesus’ death”.

In the same contribution he again drags along the idea, as opposed to a tried and tested scientific theory, of a conjurer’s trick of universal proportions, namely, the “creation of the universe from nothing through quantum fluctuations,” whatever it is that he means by “nothing”.

He attributes this idea to physicists Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow who wrote about it not decades after it was supposed to have happened, as in the case of Jesus, but 14.6 billion years after, although this does not seem to give rise to any doubts in Mr Casha’s mind about the accuracy of this exotic and gratuitous proposition (for it is nothing more than an exotic and gratuitous proposition).