Posted by cav on June 08, 2005 at 19:23:34:
Great article I just found that involves a team of National Geographic archaeologists recreating the crucifixion of Jesus. They actually concluded some things based on new evidence that reverse the 1930's research that crucifixion caused death by aspixiation, that victims had to be nailed through the wrists, or that Jesus died from blood loss. Their experimenst interesting point back to the tradtional accounts with one exception...that the cross could not have been shaped like the latin figure, but was more likely a T shape based on structural stability and speed of erection. In support of this is the record of early Christians criticizing the greek letter tau for it's resemblence. and the use of T images to terrorize early Christians in Rome.
This also illustrates how science is never as positive as the science cultists like to beleive. By nature a scientist can't be certain of anything. Here we see one of the many full reversals of theory based on new evidence. Too bad the populace has developed such a false faith that what scientists say can't be wrong. Of course this doesn't mean science is useless, quite the opposite, it is a questing for knowledge based on empirical and systematic evidence. It never claims to "know" anything, only that evidence indicates something...at least that's the attitude good scientists have.