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To: Salvation
**How are you so sure that these folks in India were not transplanted Israelites? ** This is the first time I have heard this? I bet you have some kind of a source and I just haven't looked for it yet.

Yup....it's called the Bible! [Amos 9:9] For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

And...a recent news item... Israelites in India ....from another respected source.

2,033 posted on 03/20/2007 2:36:45 PM PDT by Diego1618
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To: Diego1618; Salvation
The Tile of the article to which Deigo links is:

Researcher claims proof of tribe of Ephraim in India.

Of course I emphasized what struck me as important.

A researcher, that would be ONE researcher, makes a CLAIM. To be more complete, there is, evidently, a tradition of a Jewish heritage in the area. On the other hand, in the article another researcher is quoted as saying that there is no Jewish DNA and consequently the claim will probably not be conclusive.

So to sum up, the evidence this article provides is a claim and a tradition.

And before we get into another "ethnos" controversy, sifting could be separating not mingling.

I say again: If two things have a 50% probability of being true, the probability that they are both true at once is only 25%. If a theory depends on, say three things being true when each of those things has a 50% chance of bdeing true, that theory has only a 12.5%, or one in eight, chance of being true.

SOMEBODY's got to keep track here. There are a number of "Well, it COULD be," propositions, too often offered as slam dunks. But the theory advanced seems to require that all of them be true at once. The smart money bets ... how?

2,042 posted on 03/20/2007 8:15:04 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Tactical shotty, Marlin 1894c, S&W 686P, Sig 226 & 239, Beretta 92fs & 8357, Glock 22, & attitude!)
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