HOW FAR WILL FUNDAMENTALIST GO IN LYING TO SUPPORT THEIR VIEWS?

Just to show you how far Christian Fundamentalists will go to advance their theories and attempt to give so called scientific proof for their beliefs, I present you with the following ridiculous assertions that are made on a website entitled “Amazing Bible Discoveries by Dr. T.V. Oommen”.  It can be found at: <www.biblediscoveries.com/arkofcovenant.html>. 

In the article, Dr. Oommen contends that a Christian archeologist, a Ron Wyatt of Tennessee, discovered the Ark of the Covenant back in the early 1980’s in Jerusalem, buried in a cave which he believes was located directly under the site of the crucifixion of Jesus. The article claims that four angels directed Ron Wyatt to the site and allowed him to examine the contents of the Ark, revealing the original Ten Commandments and other related items. He further contends that God miraculously arranged for the site of the crucifixion to be directly above where the Ark was buried for a special reason. 

You see in ancient times, the High Priest would go into the Holy of Holies in Jerusalem and sprinkle the blood of sacrificial lambs on the lid of the Ark of the Covenant as a special sacrifice to God for atonement of the people of Israel.  Both Dr. Oommen and Ron Wyatt contend that there was a hole in the bedrock where the cross was placed with a shaft leading down into the cave directly above where the Ark of the Covenant was hidden and that God arranged for the crucifixion to take place there so that the blood of Jesus would drain down that shaft onto the lid of the Ark of the Covenant, thereby making atonement for all of mankind.  Ron Wyatt contends that he took samples of the dried blood on the lid of the Ark of the Covenant and had them analyzed and here are the results:

“Now I can tell you the rest of the story. When Ron found his way to the upper part of the cave in which the Ark is kept, he noticed dried blood above through a crack. This was verified to be the same crack he had seen on the bedrock. Then he found that the stone box in which the Ark was resting had its lid broken into two and separated. The implication is obvious. When the soldier pierced Jesus' side with a spear, his blood flowed down through the crack and drops of blood fell on the Mercy Seat! Later on, when Ron was able to go into the cave and inspect the Ark, he found dried blood on the Mercy Seat, with animal blood on one side and human blood on the other. This was verified by blood analysis on samples he brought back to America. In a two page leaflet Ron issued in mid-1993 and on his video, 'Presentation of Discoveries', based on a live presentation a few years back, the blood work results are mentioned. Essentially, it was human blood of a male; there were only 24 chromosomes in the white blood cells (the red cells do not have genetic information). What this implies is that Christ had only half the number of chromosomes normal humans have, half of 46, plus a Y chromosome which had to come from a non-human source, and that source has to be the Heavenly Father! It is possible that further blood analysis will be done in the future, but Ron would prefer the scientific world confirm that the sample he brought is from the Ark, and presently there is no way to do that. So any further blood analysis results would be subject to the same kind of skepticism that Ron's critics have raised.”

Now scientifically, this is absolutely ridiculous and beyond any possibility and I now present you with the explanations of genuine scientists, not Christian scientists.

The condition of a living organism having only half the number of chromosomes that it is supposed to have is called “haploid” and this is what scientists say regarding this condition:

“A cell is haploid if it contains exactly half of a species’ typical full set of genetic material. Haploid cells are often used in sexual reproduction.

 Most cells within a human (and other animals) are diploid, which means they have two copies of each chromosome. Sex cells, however, are haploid – they have only one copy of each chromosome. This is not exactly the same as monoploidy; rather, one of two differing copies of the same chromosome is in the haploid set. A monoploid cell, however, is likely to be identical to the cell it was copied from.

In animals, haploid cells are found only in sex cells. In fungus and certain algae, however, haploid cells are the norm. Male bees, wasps, and ants are haploid because of the way they develop: from unfertilized, haploid eggs.

Spontaneously and induced haploidy were reported in several animal species, including Drosophila, salamander, frog, mouse,chicken et al. Usually haploidy in animals produces physiologically abnormal individuals that die during embryogenesis.

Haploid development is a normal part of the life cycle for some animals, but it has not been observed in mammals. Studies in mice have revealed that the preimplantation developmental potential of haploid embryos is significantly impaired relative to diploid embryos. The reasons for the severely limited developmental potential of haploid embryos in mammals have not been discerned. Development of haploid rabbit parthenogenones is also inefficient. This indicates that the mammalian genome, in contrast to genomes of other organisms, is subject to gene regulatory mechanisms that disrupt the ability of a haploid genome to support early development.”  

So based on Dr. Oommen and Ron Wyatt’s theory that the blood of Jesus had only 24 chromosomes, what does this make Jesus?  The “Rabbit of God that taketh away the sins of the world” or the “Chicken of God” or worse yet, the “Fungus of God”?  It all just goes to show how far Fundamentalists will go to deliberately lie to their children and to the public in general in order to give some kind of scientific basis to their irrational and historically and scientifically undefendable beliefs.