PurpleYouko writes
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Don't you have that a bit mixed up?
As I recall the real mother agreed to let the other woman have the whole baby rather than cut it in half.
No, you're wrong. God gave Solomon wisdom above all wisdom. And the wisest thing to do at the time was to make a compromise. Both women claimed to be the mother of the child. The obvious compromise was to cut the child in half and give each woman the half child. Both women were more than happy for their fair share.
God also gave the founders of our country the wisdom to compromise. One example of this great wisdom was the 3/5 compromise.
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Maybe by the same token, anyone who really cares about the artifact would allow others to analyze it.
In this situation, the best thing to do is compromise. We cut the bones up to pieces and hand them to the people who want them. Everyone gets a fair share.