"It's one million years old!"
Interesting.
Shroud of Turin ping.
The 1988 tests were discredited long ago. The "scientists" who performed them turned out to be bigots who knew the answer before they asked the question.
Other evidence, such as pollen, puts the date back much earlier and associates it with the Holy Land.
It's between 1 and 1,000,000 years old. You heard it here first...
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Shroud Of Turin - New Date?
I have researched some of the studies done on the shroud lately, and the consensus seems to be that it is older than the 1980s study suggests and that fiber and chemical analysis indicates the presence of plant material specific to the Jerusalem area. Of course, there will always be controversy surrounding the shroud as with any religious or "divine" relic, but its story is compelling.
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"That led to the then Cardinal of Turin, Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero, admitting the garment was a hoax."
I guess this guy took courses in radiocarbon dating, antique cloth manufacturing, comparative anatomy, palynology and Ancient history while in theological seminary.
The ONLY claim that the Shroud doesn't date to the time of Christ is based on the radiocarbon testing. The radiocarbon testing, as pointed out in this and MANY earlier articles indicates the testing was flawed.
The degree of anatomical accuracy protrayed in the image was clearly beyond the knowledge of any Medieval hoaxer. Pollen sample indicate the Shroud was originally in the Middle East. Studies by fabric experts indicate it was produced in the Middle East at the time of Christ. Nobody has successfully explained how the image was produced - we can't make a similar image with modern technology at this point.
All of which provides as least as much circumstantial evidence that this is indeed the burial shroud of Christ as evidence that Scott Peterson murdered his wife and unborn child - and probably a lot more.
At a time when a animal bone could be passed off as a body part of some dead saint to nearly anyone in Europe, why on earth would a Medieval hoaxer go to such detail to create such an image - not even considering the abilities of anyone to do so at that were non-existant.
This IS the real thing.
Why not simply wash the thing?
I'm not a scientist, but I've had my doubts about the radio-carbon dating due to the fact that the shroud was actually in a fire. Wouldn't that have affected the results?
But if the test sample was taken not from the shroud itself but the cloth used to repair it, then what was that supposed to have proved to begin with?
I find the shroud fascinating, but am not convinced one way or the other. I have always suspected that the original carbon dating was inaccurate. The carbon dating placed the shroud's age at approximately the same that historical records show the shroud was repaired after being in a fire. The fact that the British Museum never investigated the possibility that the samples could have been from the repaired area seems to me to indicate that they decided prior to beginning the tests that they would debunk the shroud once and for all, and found the results they wanted.
"It's one million years old!"
God forbids making graven images and then creats one himself. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Peer-reviewed journal. Interesting....
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Bump to bump.
Cool.
Boy, these tests are really accurate;
Between 1,300 and 3,000 years old.
Yeah, and I'm between the ages of 15 and 78.