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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem
excited that the Christ was not resurrected and that he lived with mary magdalene, ala the davinci code?

i'm sure you know as well as anyone that you can "statistically" prove whatever you want to prove. it's all conjecture, based on the FAITH that Christ was not God.

15 posted on 02/25/2007 3:38:17 PM PST by wildwood
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To: wildwood

"excited that the Christ was not resurrected and that he lived with mary magdalene, ala the davinci code?"

I never read or saw it, though I heard about it a little. I thought there were age-old stories that had happened, I'm not an expert in this area.

"i'm sure you know as well as anyone that you can "statistically" prove whatever you want to prove."

No, statistics don't "prove" anything. They establish things like likelihood, margin of error, and similar things. It's a branch of math, and the usefulness of correct statistical analysis can be proven, literally. In this case they compared the sample (names on the ossuaries) with the known frequency of names at the time, and determined the chances were 600:1 against it being a different family. It could be the 1 in 600, or it could be that the known frequency of names is incorrect, or it could be that the math is incorrect.

"it's all conjecture, based on the FAITH that Christ was not God."

No, I asked about a mathematical calculation that asserts to show statistical likelihood. That's totally unrelated to faith.


16 posted on 02/25/2007 4:06:05 PM PST by GovernmentIsTheProblem (Now accepting tagline donations.)
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