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Am I to presume that you have TV news footage from the ressurrection of Christ?

See...... you HAVEN'T been listening!

Since this is a "let's just suppose" type of thread, let's just suppose that all the data, from all the news sources will, in the future, be collected into ONE big videotape. Oh heck; let's put it on a DVD, that way we can SURELY contain it all on one piece of media.

(I'm going to be typing a while, so why don't you put one of your old 8-track tapes in your computer and list to it in the background.)

Now, let's just suppose that a BIG war breaksout and our (or their) smart bombs take out ALL of our communication centers, destroying all archived tapes and film.

Years go by, and we have been re-trained to write in Farsi and pray eastward, and someone finds the DVD that 'claims' that an air crash had occured: around the 4th of July (what ever THAT is) in an area now known as Mecca-West.

Would THAT be enough evidence for proof?

Well, since your hypothetical scenario hasn't actually happened (at least not in any universe where I have lived), I can't say for certain what things would be like.

In your proposed situation, a single DVD would certainly not have the capacity to hold all of the world's media broadcasts, or even a significant collection of broadcasts of all of the major events of the world since the origin of television news, even if you used really low bitrate encoding.

I'm going off on weird tangents because I didn't take any Ritalin this afternoon.

Anyway, if there was a single data source where all news media was archived that was the only surviving vault for this stored news, then it would not constitute "proof" of previous events, as -- like I said -- they could have been faked. Whether or not someone believed the news stories therein would likely be dependent on the current state of affairs in the world, though it might be possible for someone to research the "news stories" presented in this data vault to see if additional evidence to verify the reports could be dug up elsewhere. Someone might go and see if they can't find remains of the crashed planes, or someone might seek out buried archives of print media. They wouldn't necessarily prove anything, but they might find evidence that the events mentioned in the news archives were real.

I'm still not sure what it is that you are trying to prove. Are you suggesting that the Bible is a comprehensive collection of news stories, the originals of which were destroyed in great wars?

Would THAT be enough evidence for proof?

An airplane crash would not be an extraordinary event. We have seen them happen and will see them happen again.

However, to say that Jesus walked on water, turned water into wine, was born of a virgin, etc would mean that some very extraordinary events occurred, to say the least.

For evidence, I would certainly require more than the written words of Jesus' followers, all who have a stake in making others believe that said events occurred.

My cat is really a dog and told me that, at some totally unspecified time in the future, a great war will occur.

The above sentence appears to meet your burden of "proof".