(June 4, 2013 at 11:01 am)Drich Wrote: In one of my first posts here I refuted the 'odysseus stuff' with links to the encyclopaedia Britannica, wiki, and the university of Ohio. In short Odysseus has nothing in common with Christ.
The video's creator floats a theory that Mark was influenced by the tales of Odysseus, and he compares numerous points where he feels the influence shows. It is only presented as a pet theory because it's not conclusive. I got the impression that it was like those Lincoln/Kennedy assassination comparisons; take the details that confirm a link and ignore the rest.
I think that the idea that Mark was influenced by old tales and legends is interesting and worth making with a few good examples. But he spends a lot of time finding every conceivable link, no matter how faint. Maybe he felt that quantity would be better than quality. I think it's a point worth making, but not worth drawing out as far as he did.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
