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In Can Science Explain the Bible, we told about some scientific explanations for Biblical stories that may or may not be true. Now two Italian journalists say the Bible is filled with mistakes. They claim Eve didn’t eat an apple and Jesus didn’t die at the age of 33 and wasn’t born in the first year AD. The Jews didn’t escape by walking across the floor of the Red Sea, there were eleven or twelve commandments, manna didn’t fall down from heaven, and Jonah’s whale didn’t exist. The three Wise Men weren’t really wise, and there weren’t three of them. Jesus wasn’t born on December 25th, and the apostle Paul didn’t fall off a horse on his way to Damascus. And this is being reported by journalists from the Pope’s official newspaper!
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It wasn’t just art that was looted in Iraq; dangerous strains of cholera, black fever, HIV, polio, and hepatitis may have been stolen from Iraq’s main disease control facility as well. The U.S. military is worried they may end up in the hands of people who want to use them as weapons. They may have even been stolen by organized gangs, the way art was stolen from the National Museum.

Looters took refrigerators full of deadly viruses Friday, but no one knows what’s actually missing. “They are in containers, all of these things taken together, cholera, AIDS and black fever,” one lab worker says.
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Nine residents of another Hong Kong apartment building have come down with SARS, meaning that a second apartment building may be quarantined, with no one allowed to enter or leave. Doctors think the SARS epidemic in Koway Court was started by a resident who sold fast-food near the Amoy Gardens housing estate, where more than 320 people have come down with the disease. A SARS patient with diarrhea infected the other people in Amoy Gardens due to a leaking sewage pipe, but there is no evidence of similar problems at Koway Court. Rats and cockroaches stepped in the sewage and spread it between apartments.
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Organized gangs of international art smugglers were behind the looting of Baghdad’s National Museum, not ordinary Iraqis citizens. Professor McGuire Gibson from Chicago University says the thieves knew what they were looking for and where to find it, and even had keys to the vaults. “It looks as if part of the looting was a deliberate planned action,” he says. “They were able to take keys for vaults and were able to take out important Mesopotamian materials put in safes. I have a suspicion it was organized outside the country, in fact I’m pretty sure it was.” Some of the art has already turned up in Paris and Iran.
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