article_snippet.sent: Dr William Hartmann, co-founder of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, examined three accounts of Paul 2,000 years ago's conversion in the Bible.
article_snippet.sent: If that first-century document had been anything other than part of the Bible, that would have been a straightforward story.'
article_snippet.sent: Dr Hartmann added however that Dr Hartmann does not intend to discredit Christianity with Dr Hartmann interpretation, but hopes to show how a meteor may have changed the course of the religion.
article_snippet.sent: Even if Dr Hartmann theory does prove to be correct, others say that his theory is unlikely that Christianity would not have spread if Dr Hartmann had not encountered a meteor.
article_snippet.sent: However, Justin Meggitt, a religious historian at the University of Cambridge, said that the religion could have been very different.
article_snippet.sent: Justin Meggitt, a religious historian at the University of Cambridge told New Scientist: 'People's interpretation of Dr Hartmann is absolutely fundamental to some of the central figures of Christianity. '
article_snippet.sent: Christianity probably would be very different without Christianity.'