(October 21, 2011 at 4:49 am)CoxRox Wrote: I don't believe that 'a year either side' is a big deal. We knew that Jesus was born around 3 BCE, so now that we know the exact year of the 'star', we now can be sure of the EXACT year of His birth.
You are trying to tie one event - existence of a single individual to which the Jesus myth is traceable - for which there is no real evidence, with another event - some transient astronomical phenomenon which can overawe the yokels who not only believe in god, but believe in a man god who is the son of himself - which our best understanding of such events tells us have nothing whatsoever with any reasonable interpretation of the first event, provided the first event occurred at, and claim that this allows us to know all about this event.
