--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 2/24/07 11:18:37 A.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Now is this real science? The film makers have established > > the FACT, once and for all, that this is indeed the burial > > site of Jesus? No, this is a real leap of faith. > > Even more interestingly, they claim to have > confirmed it from DNA evidence. > > Exactly. The only way to do that is to have DNA recovered > from a known, and undisputed relic to match up with DNA from > the burial site.
On the other hand, if you were to take DNA samples from a large number of purported Jesus/Mary/etc. relics and found the samples matched those from the tombs, you'd begin to have an Occam's razor situation. It would be more complicated to explain how the same DNA would be found in both the relics and the tombs if the DNA were not from the actual biblical personages. Not much chance of that, but... > I had noticed in the article that the writer was careful > to use terms like *if * and so but then slips in that > paragraph claiming it is an established fact. Nice try, > but not subtle enough. The PR people probably snuck that in.
