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Thursday, March 30, 2006

Non-story of the Day
But it comes with a great image for Lent:Here's the essential argument:
    "The evidence available demonstrates that people were crucified in different postures and affixed to crosses using a variety of means," said one of the authors, Piers Mitchell of Imperial College London.

    "Victims were not necessarily positioned head up and nailed through the feet from front to back, as is the imagery in Christian churches."
Then again, the iconic image of the Crucifixion may be right. Without any conclusive evidence telling us exactly in what position Our Lord was crucified, why not rely on Tradition?

The argument Britain's Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) uses reminds me of those put forth by the 19th Century anti-prophets of Positivism, whose essential assertion was: no conclusive evidence that Christ existed can be found; ergo, He could not have possibly existed.