February 25, 2007

Titanic Director Debunks Christianity!!

James Cameron is releasing a documentary claiming to have found the tomb of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, their son Judah, just to name three. The tomb contains the remains of ten individuals. I don't have all the details yet, but a couple of things make me instantly suspicious.

  1. Why would archaeologists release this information in the form of a documentary instead of in a scientific journal? I subscribe to Biblical Archeology Review and have not seen anything mentioning this. If there has been, please correct me.
  2. They only mention five of the ten names in the article. All five were very common names in the era of the people in the tomb. Why haven't they mentioned the other five? My guess is that they probably don't fit the mold of it being Jesus' family.
  3. They only tested the DNA of two bodies, those of "Jesus Son of Joseph" and "Mary known as the master". They determined these two people were not blood related. Since they were in the same tomb, they also concluded they must have been married. Why didn't they test the rest of the bodies? I would think they could have laid out the family relationships by doing this.
I haven't been able to dig deeply into this yet, these are just my gut reactions. I'll be doing more research in the coming days. I plan on investigating the website set up for the documentary. It can be found here.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good post.