Re: A question for TE's

Dave Probert (probert@cs.ucsb.edu)
Fri, 24 Nov 1995 20:26:10 -0800

Hi Russ -

> ... and (what seems to me) to be the obvious implication: If, by
> means of analysis of the Y chromosome, all men can be shown to have
> descended from one man who lived long ago (perhaps 190,000 years ago),
> then Jesus, were his Y chromosome analyzed, would also appear to have
> descended from that one man--assuming, as Christians must, that he
> was fully human.

I see no reason to conclude that Jesus would also share this common
Y chromosome, because I see no reason to assume that sharing the
190,000 year lineage of this chromosome is a requirement for Jesus
to be fully human.

You have begged the question.

--Dave