Refutation of Ernest Martin’s “The Star that Astonished the World” – Kurt Simmons

Camel riders approaching a torchlit desert village beneath a brilliant star

Ernest Martin’s book became the sky-show behind hundreds of planetariums. Conjunctions in 3–2 BC. Jupiter with Regulus. Jupiter with Venus in Leo. Jupiter “hesitating” over Bethlehem on December 25, 2 BC. The Magi, he says, read the heavens and came. Martin's theory is that Jesus was born September 11th 3 B.C. Kurt Simmon's work, reproduced … Continue reading Refutation of Ernest Martin’s “The Star that Astonished the World” – Kurt Simmons