Rosslyn Chapel boasts Gothic gargoyles and flying buttresses.
Posted on 11/01/2005 7:51:17 AM PST by gobucks
If she were Jesus' ancestor, that would mean she is more than 2000 years old.
It would be interesting to see whether these coils around the pillar do, in fact, mimic the DNA double helix. Most people think that it's two strands coiled equally around each other, which is what's most likely what this pillar looks like. But, in fact, the DNA double helix looks like what you'd get if you took a rope made of a triple strand (like a regular manila or sisal rope) and pulled one strand out, leaving the other two strands with an empty groove.
I guess that the learned and erudite author meant "descendant". I wonder what other mistakes she made in the article.
Rosslyn Chapel boasts Gothic gargoyles and flying buttresses.
OK, so why has the vault not been opened since the 1600'd?
The Apprentice Pillar is ornately carved.
Geraldo hasn't gotten around to it yet.
Hmm. I see not two strands, but four, in a fairly common but nonetheless aesthetic pattern.
Hmm. I see not two strands, but four, in a fairly common but nonetheless aesthetic pattern.
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The hat or the book? :)
I went to Rosslyn Chapel this past Spring and was amazed by the clear carved numerous representations of New World animals and crops throughout the structure. There is no mistaking the depictions. As a Ph.D. scientist, I think that does need some decent explantaion. The carvings (at least most) were not more recent restorations and those animals and plants should not have been known to the stone masons (at least based on our currently accepted view of history).
So a testable explantion is something I would certainly welcome.
LOL.
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