Mark kindly emailed me a link to Ben Witherington III’s blog post of 27 January 2011: ‘Finally, Archaeological Proof– Goliath Got Stoned’.
In the post, Ben Witherington digs up the following ‘proof’ of Goliath’s existence, from the 25 May 1993 copy of The Weekly World News, a publication which claims to be “The World’s Only Reliable Newspaper”:
Weekly World News, 25 May 1993
The Weekly World News, for those of you who haven’t encountered it, is famous for stories about Elvis sightings, aliens, human-bat hybrids, and various supernatural beings…not to mention the odd Giant. It seems the story was later picked up and published as though it were a genuine archaeological discovery in The Kingdom Times (Belfast; May 1994), a publication of the British Israelites. BW3 was having wee joke with us, you see.
Here is the story from inside the Weekly World News (but how did Goliath’s skull get back to the Valley of Elah from Jerusalem?):
Weekly World News, 25 May 1993
I wonder about the identities of the unnamed ”top Bible scholars” who confirmed the story. Could it be that the Weekly World News article was, in fact, the first joint publication from Provan, Long and Longman?
h/t: Mark
Yup, just a routine dig going on, not expecting to find anything at all.
reliable newspaper was an oxy moron … until now.
I’m convinced! I recant all my previous blasphemies in the face of such significant evidence.
This article was from 1993, was it just “discovered” now? Since we are now in 2011 there should be numerous scientific articles on this discovery. Anyone know where they are?
The lack of scientific articles is clearly evidence that the discovery has been suppressed by scientists (as part of an atheist conspiracy).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
GOD has preserved this evidence to prove to the whole world that the BIBLE & HIS WORDS are true.
Yes, God has a wonderful range of preserves, and I especially love His Tangerine and Grape Jelly.
Damn atheists! First they tamper with monkey bones, and now they steal Goliath’s skull! When will the conspiracy end!!!
http://www.bibleufo.com/giants.htm
I guess some people are actually serious about this…
the worst offender is the smithsonian who seem to shit can stuff into the ocean seriously they do it cover up and foist the junk science on us like we originated from monkeys and what else we evolved from slime i think they did but other didnt the odds are enormouse the best example how can you create a minature motor the size of a micron not possible but there is life micro bio forms that can rotate their tail at 100000 revultions per sec and then stop it and reverse it and there have been found in north america giant skeletal remains that so happen to disappear when the smithsonian is there and they say that it did not happen
The Lord has to have a great sense of humor to have created us.
But what really shows that the Lord has a great sense of humor is his creation of smallpox. Now that’s a hoot.
goliath’s skull looks authentic to me…Giants do exist; even to this very day; for example; there was supposedly a “Giant…a guy about 8 ‘ tall; at the service for the leader of north korea; Giants are “all over the world
and they are not bad !
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Will the religeous fanatics stop exploiting the hillbillies intelligence PLEASE…. LOL
There have been giant people throughout the world as well as in history and present day. People in excess of 7 feet tall due to a glandular disease and some too proportionate to be blamed on a hyperactive gland. Unfotunately there were many skeletans over 8 feet in length that were quietly destroyed by the Smithsonian as well as many other institutions fearing some would beleive they were proof of angelin or alien interbreeding in ancient times causing both sides to disagree and maliceously attack each other with great violence causing unknown amounts of chaos and death and carnage.
However, present day we find many people misproportioned that are 7+ ft tall. There is one man currently living in Europe who is not disabled by his 8+ foot tall frame recognized as the world’s tallest man by the Guiness world record book.