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Article: 'Da Vinci Code' raises questions of Jesus' DNA.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- May 25, 2006
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Byline: Faye Flam
What would it mean if Jesus did have sex and let his DNA loose into the general population? How special would that make his would-be descendants, such as the fictional Da Vinci code-breaker Sophie Neveu?
And what kind of DNA would Jesus have carried, considering that unlike the rest of us, his mother was reportedly a virgin?
I wrote about genetics and the virgin birth last fall and found two surprising conclusions. First, most Catholic and Protestant theologians do not get angry or insulted by this question. Second, they don't agree.
They do concur that Jesus was not a supernatural being. The doctrine of incarnation ...