[Sacajaweau]

So we know Jesus had Type AB blood, right?

[shroudie]

I'm not sure that we know that. Blood typing may not be valid for blood older than about 1000 years. It may test out as AB but is that valid.

Rogers writes: "Several claims have been made that the blood has been found to be type AB, and claims have been made about DNA testing. We sent blood flecks to the laboratory devoted to the study of ancient blood at the State University of New York. None of these claims could be confirmed. The blood appears to be so old that the DNA is badly fragmented. Dr. Andrew Merriwether at SUNY has said that "… anyone can walk in off the street and amplify DNA from anything. The hard part is not to amplify what you don't want and only amplify what you want (endogenous DNA vs contamination)." It is doubtful that good DNA analyses can be obtained from the Shroud."

Dan

[shroudie]

Ray Rogers FAQs are worth examination. The are found at Shroud of Turin Story - Guide to the Facts 2005.

Thanks

Dan

[Conservative til I die]

So we know Jesus had Type AB blood, right?

Oy vey. The skeptics just keep missing the point. No one is saying that Jesus had AB blood, just like almost no one is saying that bad carbon testing proves the Shroud is somehow authentic.

The importance of the AB blood is that at least two other well known relics associated with Christ also have AB blood on them, and at least one of them is known to have existed for centuries before the Shroud's carbon-dated alleged origin.

It doesn't prove the Shroud is legit but that a preponderance of evidence exists that makes this item quite remarkable.