Re: Genetic Trail of Christianity's Spread to Europe

Perplexed in Peoria wrote:


No, they were mostly speakers of Greek and Latin. At least when
preaching to Greeks and Romans up until the 5th Century. And after
that, they preached in whatever language was used by the people they
were preaching to. And in the case of the Slavic parts of Europe,
the Christian missionaries invented alphabets for the Slavic languages
so that Christian texts could be translated into the vernacular.


Is this trend noticed using methods of population genetics?


No. How could it be?

That is what happens when genes and memes are confused with each other.

Bob Kolker




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