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Jesus Christ, the Son of God, rose from the dead, what’s the problem?
Nonsense. The area from which they took the sample for radiocarbon dating WAS in a rewoven section.....and it’s quite obvious when viewed microscopically.
This whole “it was created in the Middle Ages” junk has been shot down completely.
There has/will be a veracious antipathy of certain entities against the Shroud...they will froth at the mouth rather than ever acknowledge that the Shroud may just be authentic. Thus is has ever been, the struggle of the Light and the Dark.
I have kept track of Barrie Schwortz's most excellent site at http://www.shroud.com/ and have corresponded with him over the years. (Barrie, a scientist on the 1978 'expedition', went into it as a skeptic)
As a portrait artist, I approach the problem from the evidence that exists in paintings - most particularly the iconic renderings that have existed from long before the carbon-dating postulations.
The iconic paintings of Jesus had one original source and there were many hundreds painted for the churches (no photography back then) = they all have the same visage - and is the depiction still used today as what we recognize as Jesus: with the hair, the beard, etc..
This is one of my favorite icons = and, as you can see by going to the web site - it is interchangeable with the shroud. (Another thing that pins it for me is that many of the iconic paintings have a wisp of hair mid-forehead...This 'wisp' shows on the Shroud - it is, actually, flows of blood = but was thought by the early painters to be hair. It is little things like this that, in my mind, connect the Shroud with the early iconic paintings.
http://www.shroudofturin4journalists.com/pantocrator.htm
This famous iconic painting, the "Pantocrator" - was painted in the 500's = centuries older than the carbon dating = The artist obviously, in my mind, took this image from the Shroud. 
But there are some that will never accept the authenticity of the Shroud - even were Jesus to appear before them and so identified it. There will always be wheat and there will always be chaff...
