I feel guilty even discussing this because the charlatan doesn't deserve more airtime and attention than he's already getting from a pseudo-scientific study of a so-called religious topic.
Tom C. > >That's exactly the point of archaeologists who have studied this. >Mary and Joseph were very common names, as was Jesus. But most >experts say that the third name isn't Jesus anyway. It was >mistranslated. Whether one believes or not, this "discovery" of a >tomb was nothing special. What's more it's location doesn't >correspond to anything else that is known about the historical (not >religious) Jesus, son of Joseph and Mary. > >Paul >On Feb 26, 2007, at 5:32 PM, Tom C wrote: > > > So how can DNA tests prove anything about who persons were might/ > > have been > > when you don't have anyone else's DNA to compare it to? > > > > And how common would that set of names be for any one of thousands of > > families living at the time? > > > > Tom C. > > > > > > > >> From: Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > >> To: "pentax list" <[email protected]> > >> Subject: Re: OT: The tomb of Jesus > >> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:24:52 +0000 > >> > >> On 26/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED], discombobulated, unleashed: > >> > >>> You're talking about the new James Cameron documentary about the > >>> alleged > >>> tomb? The BBC did a piece on this eleven years ago. It's since been > >>> relegated to the hogwash bin. But it was never beneath Cameron to > >>> go for > >>> a quick buck. > >> > >> BBC link: > >> > >> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6397373.stm> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Cotty > >> > >> > >> ___/\__ > >> || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > >> ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com > >> _____________________________ > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
