yes I just watched it on TIVO, interesting, but I wish they had shown more of the actual stars and less talk, I am particularly struck by the part linking the woman in Rev. 12 and the conjuction of Virgo rising with the crescent moon at the supposed time of the Annunciation, and its correspondence (which the commentator did not make) to the image on the Tilma.
My problem with people who are not well versed in a discipline–scripture study, astronomy, whatever–who attempt self-teaching and then base a theory and a book on their research–is exactly what happens in this commentator’s narration–at least twice he bolsters his theory by posing a supposition of his own as evidence to support the initial theory. That is a logical fallacy. For instance he makes a supposition about Herod, which may or may not be historically accurate, to support his main line of thought. He does the same thing about the Magi, as in, “maybe they are the ‘good’ Eastern variety of magus.”
