text: is the internet going to be our final 'holy book'? i have noticed that on replying to religious questions the majority of answers give quotes from the  various holy books , bibles, koran, torah etc as if this is actually going to prove anything at all! or they name these books as 'sources of information! i have also noticed that when questions are asked (on any subject at all) lots of the answers give www.pages as 'sources' these also don't 'prove' anything at all, you can get just as many differences in these pages as the bible . so we may as well select the internet as our new holy book?(notice i have posted this under  'mythology & folklore)! interesting observation.  i would quibble that these folks who constantly cite some biblical or koranic verse as "proof" of their positions or opinions are poor, literal-minded saps who think their fairy tale is the bestest of fairy tales.  frankly, while the internet is a great media for community-building, it is not, and probably never can be, very good for obtaining "facts", since any search (yahoo, google or other) is likely to provide both genuine information and apocryphal doodoo masquerading as the straight dope. thus, while i too find those quotatious responders curious and perhaps pathetic, the very presence of the  "know your source? list it here:"  box on the response page is an invitation to the practice. i do hope we won't start believing that the internet is our new holy book, but we probably will (sigh).   after all, it's already capitalized.