[Prospero]

No minds, no facts, either. It's a stretch to assume an ancient weave found in one of the most transitory and cosmopolitan places and times in the Roman era just has to breathlessly "add to evidence" one way or another about the "controversial" Shroud of Turin.

I know zero Christians who have founded their faith on the Shroud. But I do know this: Wherever God in Christ has manifested His will and Word in this world you can count on the devil immediately staking out a Gypsy camp all over the top of it and opening up a spiritual whorehouse. "Controversy" to this world is smoke telling of a fire somewhere.

Why doesn't National Geographic expend as much energy "proving" the Ka'abah, the object of veneration by more than a billion Muslims, is just a rock?

Why so much "controversy" over a couple of acres of high ground in Jerusalem?

"The discoverer is not someone who set out to debunk anything?"

Right.

[a fool in paradise]

Why doesn't National Geographic expend as much energy "proving" the Ka'abah, the object of veneration by more than a billion Muslims, is just a rock?

One word, "Fatwa".

[little jeremiah]

Excellent points.