Pedantry is a pain --even to those who promote it

One thing you realize when you discover a few things for yourself as a scientist is that you  only half listened and are lucky to have come even this far , You learn too  that too many half educated  people of our age worship,  but don't use equations they were given and for some strange reason  elevate word associations  to the status of equations.
Even Einstein,  the equation specialist , could see that somethings of importance are not equations ,but choices . ;  Either life is a miracle,  or it is not .

After a lifetime of trying to prove the latter , the grand consumer of  fresh  ideas .  Phillip Adams has finally conceded , not that God is God perhaps ,but that the story is often the greater vehicle for the substance; which if he is right about his new love of old characters  may have nothing to with fresh - we may be seeing the unbelievable - an interest in the stale and suspect .
Is Adams  about to abandon a life of wobbly  words for a mere image making machine - a golden calf version which looks good but doesn't really move us anywhere; Surely he will hack bits off even these stories  and undermine the characters . Otherwise , why has he missed to chance to film these stories  before . The answer is evident ; too many have treated the good books as rule books when they are mostly narrative naive pedants, In seeking the point , they miss the point.
At the end of the day they couldn't make the story work because they would have to portray  the faith as weak flawed or fanatical - none of which will usually apply except to the onlookers,  The strong admirable individuals will have the legs minds and hearts cut out  , They will bring their kindergarten constructs in and walk out with a hatchet mess.  Straw men in Adams in Wonderland - now there is a biography

Maybe as Chesterton suggests , Adams has decided to move somewhat from the predictable long winded life of the lumbering logomacher ? .Maybe he's just playing with us,  as he usually does , Who would know,  the ABC breeds chameleons : Those evolved ones who often think they are what they were last week . I know he thinks he thinks scientifically,  but no its his version , and not his practice to do it properly

Adams  reckons he's going to make movies again. The Bible being his inspiration . I won't wait up to see how he goes because you never know where the time wasting Philip is taking you .( Although we should know by now)   If he runs the script like he runs reviews , he will have the last word on just where even those  stories from the Bible came from .Clever by halves .

Why have the ABC given these same old same old wandering word men so long and good an opportunity to write and control dialogue?  .
These old barnacles wouldn't exist out in the real world of ideas that work  if the ABC had decided there is a need for more diversity on the ship,  
Even withe 3 channels the ABCship is  a lot slower than SBS - esp in this area of storytelling .