Thursday, March 16, 2006
we're all related
Do the math. We all go back to two people a few millenia ago:
People may like to think that they're descended from some ancient group while other people are not. But human ancestry doesn't work that way, since we all share the same ancestors just a few millenniums ago. As that idea becomes more widely accepted, arguments over who's descended from Jesus won't result in lawsuits. And maybe, just maybe, people will have one less reason to feel animosity toward other branches of the human family.There is a link from this article to the mathamatical formula for working this all out. This is an article about the DaVinci Code trial, dealing with the very stupid question: what if Jesus had ancestors? The article points out what a big if that is, but if he did it would not be that big a deal to be a related to him.
