To: tiamat
if a DNA sample could be gotten from the Shroud, and if a living decendant could be found to compare it to.....Maybe we could find out for sure? Broken strands of DNA have been recovered from the Shroud... but they are far too degraded to provide any matching information. There is also the problem of eith 650 or 2000 years of people drooling, touching, follicating, and other human natural emissions perhaps contaminating the Shroud.
300 posted on
04/06/2004 1:29:01 AM PDT by
Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
Swordmaker wrote:
Broken strands of DNA have been recovered from the Shroud... but they are far too degraded to provide any matching information. There is also the problem of eith 650 or 2000 years of people drooling, touching, follicating, and other human natural emissions perhaps contaminating the Shroud.
Would be hard to get a pure sample.
314 posted on
04/06/2004 2:57:52 AM PDT by
tiamat
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