Amazing discovery: Jesus' DNA was left-handed!

[Jayakumar, R]

Hi.. DK.  Even though this is not a forum for religious discussions, the
DNA image on the video is a computer animation.  I guess the person
making the animation is not a molecular biologist, and moreover it is
only a graphical representation of what they are trying to show. I am
sure redoing the animation would have costed the production unit a chunk
of money.  So I don't see the relevance between that and story of Jesus
Christ. 
    AT least, the mitochondrial DNA haplogroup/type classification look
convincing that they are not related and hence are not born of the same
mother.  The discussion about Jesus Christ and his life has been going
on for millenia and I am sure it will never be resolved just as
creationists will never agree that Evolution is true.  But in the midst
of all this, we all forget one thing.. Who cares whether Christ was
married or had children or was son of God or whatever, THE THING THAT
ACTUALLY matters is that he was one of the greatest saints that we have
known and his teachings still give solace and comfort to a large chunk
of the population just as science does to man. That is the only thing
that matters.  All others are irrelevant. 
   So let us take the Discovery channel program for what it is... A
scientific investigation on another religious belief.  Take it or leave
it.
  
Jai



-----Original Message-----
From: methods-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu
[mailto:methods-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu] On Behalf Of Bob
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 11:06 PM
To: methods from magpie.bio.indiana.edu
Subject: Re: Amazing discovery: Jesus' DNA was left-handed!

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:11:24 GMT, dk from no.email.thankstospam.net (DK)
wrote:

>Watching "The Lost Tomb of Jesus"
>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3973086232886534654&q=duration%
>3Along+is%3Afree and there it is, two proud left handed DNAs staring at

>me from the screen (at ~ 59 min). Or, an equivalent version on YouTube 
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er2_VzW7bRw
>(at 5:15" on this one).
>
>You'd think the filmmakers (and their scientific consultants) that make

>such extraordinary claims ("Jesus' tomb found") would bother to make 
>sure that the basic science in their movie is alright but no ...  it's 
>too much to ask.
>


It's amusing, but it's an easy mistake to make! (I presume the mistake
had no substantive impact.)

http://www-lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/LeftHanded.DNA.html

Maybe you would like to submit your new example.


bob
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