[Grut]

The thing is... even if the Shroud were precisely dated to 28AD and shown to be the product of no known technology, it would still be more parsimonious in terms of scientific materialism to suppose that 'believers' somewhere in our future had invented time travel and planted the evidence than it would be to suppose that a non-materialistic miracle had occurred.

[TexasGreg]

The thing is... even if the Shroud were precisely dated to 28AD and shown to be the product of no known technology, it would still be more parsimonious in terms of scientific materialism to suppose that 'believers' somewhere in our future had invented time travel and planted the evidence than it would be to suppose that a non-materialistic miracle had occurred.

Ah ... a miracle can't occur, therefor it didn't occur, and any evidence which says that it did can't really be authentic because miracles can't occur. :) Sounds like circular reasoning to me, not parsimony. Your Occum's razor needs new blades.