Fnord wrote:
Greatshield17 wrote:
... It's a song written by God Himself...
Evidence, please?
It's very suspicious that the first written account occurred over one-hundred years after the alleged event.Well let's see what the scientist have discovered in their research of the tilma. Perhaps the most noteworthy and reliable research done on the tilma, is by Dr. Philip Callahan, biophysicist, USDA entomologist, and yes, NASA consultant. His research, using infrared light, found that the image was done simultaneously, with no underdrawings, no corrections, and no brushstrokes.
Now some features of the tilma have been added later on, and oddly enough those are the only parts of the image that show signs deterioration, the parts that are believed to be part of the original are still intact. (Keep in mind that this is a tilma, made out of cactus fibre, things made cactus fibre don't last very long, several replicas of the tilma have been made, and all them have long-since deteriorated; only the original is still around, centuries later.) Now I can't remember whether or not the stars were added on to the tilma, but if they were added on, allegedly a century after the miracle occurred, that, in and of itself is miraculous, because the stars line-up perfectly with the position of the stars in the sky on the exact date that the miracle occurred. To apply that kind of knowledge, when that kind of astronomy wouldn't be re-discovered until centuries later, I find that hard to believe. (Also on a simple common sensical level, wouldn't it be odd for the Franciscan priests to come out and say, "Oh, and by the way, a century ago there was this miracle that occurred to this Aztec guy, here's his tilma with the miraculous image on it,
sorry you didn't here about this until now?" Wouldn't it make more sense, if the Franciscans were to make this up, to just come out and say, "Okay this just happened a few days ago, Our Lady appeared to this Aztec guy, here's his tilma with a miraculous image on it?")
These are just a few miraculous aspects of the tilma by the way, but I'll just leave it here for now.
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