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Shroud Of Turin DNA Indicates Global Origins
The Huffington Post ^ | October 19, 2015 | Lee Speigel

Posted on 10/19/2015 6:18:36 PM PDT by EveningStar

There's a surprising new wrinkle in the story of the celebrated Shroud of Turin.

A group of Italian researchers have found that the 14-foot-long garment -- believed by some to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, even though science has proven that's not the case -- contains DNA from plants found all over Earth.

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Religion; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: dna; hoax; hufffingtonpost; huffpo; jc; jesus; leespeigel; medievalfake; nuttery; shroudofturin; snopes
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1 posted on 10/19/2015 6:18:37 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


2 posted on 10/19/2015 6:19:06 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Science has proven no such thing.


3 posted on 10/19/2015 6:21:10 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: EveningStar

I guess the Mormons and Japanese did see him...


4 posted on 10/19/2015 6:21:33 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: EveningStar

Errrr....didn’t it go ‘on tour’ for a while?


5 posted on 10/19/2015 6:22:00 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: EveningStar

There is no mystery that the shroud is contaminated. Early artists used to lay their cloths directly on the shroud in order to copy it. What is a mystery is that the image on the shroud is not the result of any process known to mankind. It is a negative image with 3-D information produced via a Dot-Matrix pattern of a resolution higher than most modern printers. In fact, the image is not in the cloth fibers themselves, rather on a micro-thin layer of soapwort which dries on the outside of the fibers in the manufacturing of the cloth. Absolutely facinating.


6 posted on 10/19/2015 6:25:33 PM PDT by kik5150
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To: yarddog

Last I heard, “Science” was still looking into it. Or does the Huffington Post consider it “settled science” like “global warming”?


7 posted on 10/19/2015 6:27:21 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: kik5150

Well said, and yes, fascinating. Almost like a recording of a dematerialization into pure light...


8 posted on 10/19/2015 6:30:08 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Errrr....didn’t it go ‘on tour’ for a while?


It was not allowed to be contaminated by anything from “all over the world”.


9 posted on 10/19/2015 6:30:44 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: EveningStar; Alamo-Girl; albee; AnalogReigns; AnAmericanMother; Angelas; AniGrrl; annalex; ...
After sequencing the DNA of pollen and dust found on the Shroud of Turin, the researchers discovered several plant groups native to the Mediterranean, RealClearScience.com reported. Other groups were linked to Asia, the Middle East, or the Americas, but must have been introduced at a time later than the Medieval period, according to the researchers. . .

The claim in the second paragraph of the article that Science has proved the Shroud cannot be the burial cloth of Jesus due to the 1988 Carbon 14 tests is false, because those tests have been falsified by three different peer-reviewed studies showing that although the tests were accurate on what was tested, the sample itself was flawed from the start, being taken from an area on the Shroud that was apparently patched in the 17th Century and was now contaminated with 40%-60% more modern Cotton threads interwoven with the original Linen Shroud material of indeterminate age. . . which could be as old as 1st Century.


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10 posted on 10/19/2015 6:34:49 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: JennysCool

They usually come out with this crap right at Easter or Christmas. They’re early.


11 posted on 10/19/2015 6:35:01 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: JennysCool
Huffington post are those who huff leading to delirium
12 posted on 10/19/2015 6:35:40 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.)
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To: EveningStar

The idea of a negative image in that century was non-existent. Secondly there is no paint or oil or whatever used to produce that image. And what of that blood serum on it? There are no brush strokes on the pigment or whatever it is that produced the image. No matter how careful you are you still would see strokes either up or across.


13 posted on 10/19/2015 6:36:10 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: EveningStar

Secondly, the image is on top of the fabric, not into the fabric.


14 posted on 10/19/2015 6:36:45 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: EveningStar

The thing has been all around the world. Duh.


15 posted on 10/19/2015 6:38:21 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Errrr....didn’t it go ‘on tour’ for a while?

No. It has been known to have been in France, Northern Italy, and theorized to have been in Edessa (Sanliaurfa, or Urfa), Turkey, Constantinople or Istanbul, Jerusalem, and places in-between, but that is it.

16 posted on 10/19/2015 6:40:16 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
They usually come out with this crap right at Easter or Christmas. They’re early.

I've always associated the hufandpuffington more with Halloween, so it's pretty much on schedule.

17 posted on 10/19/2015 6:45:15 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: laplata
It was not allowed to be contaminated by anything from “all over the world”.

Uh, yeah, it was. In the past, it was not unusual for it to be paraded through the town where it was, being held by priests in their hands, where dirty, dusty pilgrims from everywhere were lined up along the streets quite close to it, were allowed to reach out and touch it. The streets were dusty and dirty as well. It would NOT have been washed after one of these parades and merely put away.

Robert du Clary, a knight with the fourth Crusade related how every Sunday, the Shroud would be brought up on some kind of support, out of its reliquary like a drapery in the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople so that "The Image of Our Lord stood up for all to see". . . Thus, dust and wind from a very bustling sea port with ships visiting from all over the world could have brought pollen from everywhere.

Until the 20th Century, every exposition of the Shroud was open air. . . no glass covered the Shroud as hundreds of thousands of pilgrims walked past within twenty feet or so, raising clouds of dust which would have certainly allowed some of those pollens to fall on the cloth of the Shroud during those expositions. I believe that the first glass enclosure was the 1932 exposition and that has been the practice since, because prior to that, such large panes were impractical and/or gave too much glare for the pilgrims to get a good view. Even in 1978 the scientists were aghast to learn the priests had merely displayed the Shroud on a backing of plywood using rust prone, steel, THUMB TACKS (!!) which had indeed left a ring of rust where ever they had been on the Shroud.

18 posted on 10/19/2015 6:52:51 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Mastador1

True.


19 posted on 10/19/2015 6:53:13 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.
The thing has been all around the world. Duh.

Actually, no, it hasn't. . . but it has been visited by people from all over the world.

20 posted on 10/19/2015 6:54:48 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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