[Always Right]

of course carbon-dating is more conclusive then actual documentation...

[Star Traveler]

You said — of course carbon-dating is more conclusive then actual documentation...

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Here’s what one paragraph said in the article...

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Radiocarbon dating tests on the Turin Shroud in 1988 indicated that it was a medieval fake. However this had been challenged on the grounds that the dated sample was taken from an area of the shroud mended after a fire in the Middle Ages and not a part of the original cloth.

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I’ve seen that theory presented elsewhere, too...

[Swordmaker]

of course carbon-dating is more conclusive then actual documentation...

Except when the Carbon Dating that was done in 1988 has been conclusive proved—through both chemical, statistical, and physical analysis published in peer-reviewed journals and independently confirmed—to have been done on samples taken from a PATCHED area of the Shroud where the material is MIXTURE of original Linen and 16th Century Cotton added to the original material to repair damage.

The percentage of polluting Cotton varied between 40% and 60% of the tested sample, accounting for the previously inexplicable statistical variation in the 1988 test results that far exceeded—a spread of over 155 years—the expectations of the degree of confidence had the sub-samples all clipped from the same master sample been homogenous. Once it was found they were NOT homogenous, and not exemplar of the main body of the Shroud, the Carbon Dating done in 1988 was falsified.

[Mercat]

Tonight on Discover channel is a documentary on that topic.. 6 in my time zone.

[Wpin]

“of course carbon-dating is more conclusive then actual documentation...”

Only, if done properly...which the Shroud of Turin was not done. The carbon testing is invalid because they did not test the actual original linen...there was “contamination” from medieval era cotton fibers which were used to repair a damaged section of the shroud.

Ask you favorite scientist to duplicate the image...

[Wpin]

Only if it is done correctly, it was not in the case of the Shroud of Turin...

[Kozak]

There’s a question with the carbon dating on the shroud due to the fire it was in and the location of sample that was used. Not saying it’s authentic, but would not hang my hat on the carbon 14 dating alone.