Archaeology
Posted at 5:32pm on Mar. 31, 2008 Deep Impact
By absentee
Bristol University researchers have at last deciphered a clay tablet that has been an enigma for over 150 years. They have concluded it is an eyewitness account of an asteroid destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah just before dawn on June 29th, 3123 B.C.
The tablet is thought to be a 700 B.C. reproduction of the original account, copied from the notes of an ancient Sumerian astronomer.
Their findings are published in the book "A Sumerian Observation of the Köfels Impact Event."
(Via The Corner)
Posted at 7:45pm on Mar. 23, 2008 CBS Uses Easter Holiday to Poke Christians with a Stick by Presenting a Five-Year-Old Story as “New News” (Part 1 of 2)
By Jeff Emanuel
Like clockwork, as the month leading up to the Easter holiday comes around, a major media outlet uses its platform to poke Christian viewers with a figurative stick by running (or, more often, re-running) any one of their archive rooms full of shoddily-researched, often long-disproven “Does this finally prove that Christianity is a bunch of bunk?” stories.
Last year, it was James Cameron’s documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus, about a tomb which had supposedly been found to contain the remains of Jesus, his wife Mary Magdalene, their son Jude, and the rest of their family, including Jesus’ brother, James. Passed off as brand-new, religion-damning information at a pre-documentary debut press conference hosted by the black-clad Cameron, this “discovery” was, as usual, nothing of the sort.
Read on.
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