Oh that mankind would yield and walk after the Spirit and not after the the old fleshly ways of Adam. Scientific advancement without spiritual morality is the difference between using nuclear energy to make electricity to serve mankind and making it into bombs that can wipe the earth clean of all human life. It is the unbridled advancement of science that men look too and as a result “spiritual truth” is not even in the running and the cultures of the world are degenerating rapidly as a result. Even this article you quote from is all about scientific advancement with DNA and not a word about the spiritual truths in those manuscripts especially from one who reads them with the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit. READERS CAN FIND MY VIEWS ON ABUSE AND ABUSE-RELATED ISSUES AT ANNA WALDHERR A Voice Reclaimed, Surviving Child Abuse Īnna, you wrote: “We can only hope spiritual truth is not overshadowed by scientific advancements.” The Atlantic, “Sampling DNA from a 1000-Year Old Medieval Manuscript” by Sarah Zhang, 8/8/17. We can only hope spiritual truth is not overshadowed by scientific advancements. The aim of those humble men was to preserve and transmit the truth of the gospels by faithfully transcribing them. The monks creating such beautiful manuscripts could not have imagined how much later ages would learn from their work. Medievalists analyzing copy errors in manuscripts already use the same phylogenetic programs biologists use to study how DNA mutates with time. There is a growing trend to bring together science and the humanities in studying medieval manuscripts. However, this non-destructive method of testing greatly enlarges the pool of potential research material.
Scientists have obtained DNA from parchment before. The DNA from those eraser crumbs was sufficient! Conservationists commonly use erasers to clean manuscripts. Surprisingly, the DNA was extracted without destroying a shred of parchment. The most complete parchment genome was similar to modern Holsteins and Norwegian reds. Three samples yielded enough DNA to compare cattle genomes from the Middle Ages with today’s. Using animal DNA, researchers can trace medieval trade routes, or discover how a particular disease pathogen impacted medieval herds.
DNA has, also, though been obtained from the cows and sheep whose skins became the parchment onto which the York Gospels were written. That DNA from such individuals should have been obtained is nothing short of amazing.
Medieval monks crafted illuminated manuscripts which other churchmen read and handled, down the centuries. The manuscript contains the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, along with clergy oaths and land records. Scientists have succeeded in extracting DNA from a 1000 year old manuscript known as the York Gospels. Illuminated manuscript showing Cistercian monks at work and prayer, Cambridge Collection (PD)
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