[Buddha-l] The Lost Tomb of Jesus

[SJZiobro at cs.com]

If one posits that fiath and science are not opposed, then perhaps one can disagree for reasons of evidence and it not simply be a matter of faith.  For instance, the discovery was made in 1980 or thereabouts.  The Israli archeologist didn't give it a thought that this could be Jesus tomb because:

1.  The ossuary reflects those used by middle to upper middle class Jersualemnites whereas Christ was Galilean;

2.  The names were so common that it is not a wonder that one finds a Jesus buried with somebody named Mary;

3.  The DNA doesn't match;

4.  And how would anybody determine Jesus' DNA, anyway; etc.

It doesn't take faith to question the veracity of the claims.

Stan Ziobro
Wong Weng Fai <wongwf at comp.nus.edu.sg> wrote:

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>OK... I'll cast the first stone... so what do folks think of the 
>"archae-porn" shown last night on Discovery, i.e. The Lost Tomb of Jesus?
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>Evidence vs faith etc...
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>W.F. Wong
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