The Science of Christmas

[chaggle]

Tom Chivers in The Telegraph

On the virgin birth:

Among our fellow mammals, alas, it doesn’t happen, at least not in nature, although it has been induced in the laboratory. But if the Virgin Mary was a Komodo dragon - which the New Testament at no stage denies - the story is entirely plausible.

[Mr.Smoketoomuch]

So Jesus is one of the lizard people ?

[Harryprice]

Just for once I'd like to see the inevitable newspaper headline "What was the Star of Bethlehem" replaced by "Was there even a Star of Bethlehem at all?".