(October 19, 2011 at 6:55 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:So this guy is able to show that Jupiter retrogaded in Dec 2BC
Um, even if this were true all it would do is further complicate the already existing contradiction between Luke and Matthew about your alleged godboy's birth. Matthew places it while Herod the Great was still alive, IOW before 4 BC. Luke places it when Publius Sulpicius Quirinius was named governor of Syria in 6 AD. There is no way to reconcile this contradiction and now this bozo wants to introduce a 3d choice which matches none of the texts which xtian nuts swear are both true!
By the way, there is a secondary problem with this bullshit - which only appears in "Matthew."
Yes, good point, however regardless of which interpretation, the fact remains is that Jupiter has been doing retrograde motion since the beginning of the solar system was formed, that is, it did that over earth sky a million times over. So Christians would need to explain why the specific one that occurred 2,000 years ago announced the birth of the son of God while all the others are insignificant... a tall order to explain.
