I love these YouTube links, some of them are just hilarious.
This one was posted as an answer to an earlier question as evidence for the existence of Jesus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGLPADW_kUw
If people believe this guy, then why not believe Eric Von Danekin with his "Chariots of the Gods" as well?
2007-07-15 03:06:50 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hory clap..... that's some ridiculous ridiculousness.
2007-07-15 03:09:47 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I find it very unlikely that he actually existed for one simple reason : Nobody ever bothered to physically describe him -and that's impossible not to do.
Writers always physically describe the people that they are writing about .Read Homer's vivid descriptions of Odysseus.The Bible contains no such descriptions of Jesus and that is a glaring omission.
When people tell people about new people they have met they always give a physical description.
People describing people is so elementally human that the absence of any description in the Bible just jumps off the page. The description should be there and it's not
Given the highly developed state of Greek & Roman art at the time that Jesus suppossedly lived , the absence of any physical describtion is even more glaring.
We know what Plato looked like but not Jesus ,Why not ?
2007-07-15 03:43:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This guy apparently was delusional, but he's been dead for 8 years, so this stuff (that was supposed to hit the mass media soon, according to your link) is really old craziness.
People have been making "scientific" claims about Jesus for a long time, and they NEVER have proved accurate. The Shroud of Turin was proved a fake years ago, but people still cling to it as a relic of Jesus.
Why, oh why, is Christianity the largest religion in the world? It fails the test of logic in so many ways.
From Wikipedia:
Ronald Eldon Wyatt (1933 - August 4, 1999) was a controversial self-styled archaeologist (he had no training in the discipline and held no professional position) who claimed to have found many significant biblical sites and artifacts. His claims are dismissed by the scientific and historical communities.
2007-07-15 03:22:09 · answer #3 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If there were any veracity to this whatsoever, doesn't anybody think that it would have been AAAALLLLLL over the world news. It would have been the biggest event in all of news media history. I didn't catch anything, did you?
Incidentally, I have infinitely more belief in the possibility that Eric Von Danekin is on the right track. I find him very logical, rational and compelling.
2007-07-15 03:27:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He talks about DNA and chromosomes as if they are two different things. DNA is a double helix composed of chromosomes.
It is not possible to reconstitute the DNA (and thus the chromosomes and their count) on tissue that is more then about fifty years old. DNA is not made up of magical elements; it's tissue and decomposes over time. It's about the last thing that will decompose, but it WILL eventually decompose. Particularly after 2000 years.
IOW: hogwash. Some people are desperate to believe, even if it means believing utter lies.
2007-07-15 03:26:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And the scary part is that lots of people are convinced by Eric Von Danekin.
2007-07-15 10:00:57 · answer #6 · answered by skeptic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Utter nonsense.
If his knowledge of blood sampling were even half as good as he seems to think, he'd know that this is nonsense; I don't intend to list all the inanities, but the most glaring one is clear to any first-year medical student.
You CAN'T get a chromosome count from a sample on a slide under a lab microscope.
2007-07-15 03:20:08 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It was most likely he existed but was just some guy. If you sit in the desert listening to someone rant non stop for days on end, its quite easy to hallucinate seeing food like loaves and fishes.
2007-07-15 03:13:49 · answer #8 · answered by ByeBuyamericanPi 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ugh! Von Danekin. He would be funny, if some folks didn't take him seriously.
2007-07-15 06:27:58 · answer #9 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Holy crap. Yeah, indeed not all Christians believe this kind of stuff, but I think many if not all of them hope for something like this and this hope can get kinda freaky.
2007-07-15 03:30:23 · answer #10 · answered by Ray Patterson - The dude abides 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So...this dude died in 1999 aye...wow...they suuure are taking a long time to show us non-believers the magical bloods. Psh...so lame, adults with invisible friends.
2007-07-15 03:22:24 · answer #11 · answered by cindy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋