Re: Radiocarbon dating of Shroud of Turin wrong?

nibblenot_at_lycos.com
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: 30 Jan 2005 00:27:13 -0800

Martin Reboul wrote:
> "William Black" <abuse@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ctb8dq$jng$1@news.freedom2surf.net...
> >
> > "Michael Hopper" <mikehopper@rogers.com> wrote in message
> > news:MpWdnQigI6770WXcRVn-hw@rogers.com...
> > > I see that Raymond Rogers is stating that the radiocarbon date
for the
> > > Shroud of Turin made in 1988 was made on a repaired piece of the
original
> > > cloth and not on the original material. He is claiming that the
cloth is
> > > somewhere between 3000 and 700 years old.
> > >
> > > I await any response from those involved in the first study.
> >
> > You could have a longish wait.
> >
> > I imagine the response will wander along in due time and it will be
on the
> > lines of:
> >
> > 'Ok we'll do it again on another bit of cloth, can we borrow some
sissors,
> > oh, and a chitty from the Vatican please...'
> >
> > However you're dealing with Oxford here, and an article in
'Nature'.
> >
> > Being accused of error isn't something they're terribly happy
about,
> > especially when it comes from someone with 'history' on the
subject.
> >
>
> http://www.shroud.com/meacham.htm
>
> Quite comprehensive...
>
> http://www.mcri.org/Shroud.html
>
> More succinct, and the truth I suspect. No blood - therein lies the
key.
>
> http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020819/shroud.html
>
> Here we have more KRS style wishful thinking revealed... the very
words 'secret
> testing' make one either laugh or despair - or both.
>
> Let's face it, it looks medieval, it is covered in medieval paint and
it
> appeared in medieval times. There is no blood, no Holy DNA and no
indication
> that it is genuine, other than in the imagination of believers.
>
> So, we have to ask the question - where is the real one? Any ideas?
> Cheers
> Martin

That would assume that the real one actually survived.

My question is, if his shroud has come to have such importance, why not
Jesus's clothing, his loin cloth which girded his holy crown jewels, or
the holy turds the son of god would have crapped?

Now folks will be scouring the desert for his lost droppings, and
analysing what he ate before he went on his forty days and forty nights
of self awakening.

##minty

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