"I would have said that either smintheus has not read North’s work, or he is misleading his readers. North’s challenges include far more than the time stamps, and to reduce it to that is either dishonest or very sloppy. But then smintheus informs us that the rest of North’s work is “writing obsessively about inconsequential details.” This comment reveals quite nicely what happens when someone with a predisposition to reject the argument, reads uncomfortable material (like me reading tax forms). Apparently knowing that this kind of thing could not happen, smintheus feels free not to bother with details that suggest that it might."