Point taken. OK, it's been a while since I saw it. I just watched it again, and I'll have to restate that their Bible episode was almost a monument to fuzzy thinking, intellectual laziness and intellectual sloppiness. I say almost, because it was only ten minutes long. Yeah, Iain, a short popular presentation has its limits, but surely they could have done better. It's just laughable.
Just to hit a few highlights:
Half the show is an interview with some un-named guy who obviously has no clue. No, I'm sorry, the two accounts of the creation of Man are NOT some kind of faith-breaking contradiction. Not even close.
No, literal does NOT mean what you think it means, there, stud.
Then, he objects that there is no evidence of anyone named Moses, other than in the Bible, but that just doesn't count, so his argument doesn't even rise to the level of a respectably illogical argument from silence.
Better yet, he objects that there is no evidence that the Hebrews wandered in the desert for forty years.
What evidence does he expect a bunch of nomads to leave behind, that would survive the intervening thousands of years, and other nomads that tracked all over their stuff? We didn't even find the Dead Sea Scrolls for two thousand years, and those boys stayed in one place for I think a couple of centuries.
Then Penn (or whichever is the big one) informs us that Jesus claimed he would heal the sick, but he "only cures the ones he happens to bump into." Despite being contrary to any evidence we do have, what exactly is his objection here?
/Rant off.
To be fair, yes, they did cover a couple of points that were harder to deal with. But if they were hoping to debunk the Bible, they simply failed.