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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

Posted by CelticBear on March 23rd, 2007

The latest Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe has a brief follow-up to the whole “Tomb of Jesus” shtuph.
Some peer-review feedback includes an analysis of the labeling of one of the ossuaries shows that the “Mary Magdalene” one is actually “Mariamene and Mara,” the second name added by a different hand a century later. Putting two people in the same “bone box” was not at all uncommon.

As the podcast host states, this is why it’s vital that discoveries go through the peer-review process before you make documentaries about it. Irreducible Complexity proponents Behe and Dembski could learn something from this.

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