[HumanaeVitae]

"it strongly implies that the Shroud of Turin may be the only extant example of a "lost photographic technology which is normally assumed to have been first discovered in the early nineteenth century by such people as Thomas Wedgwood and Sir Humphry Davy."

Ha! A lost photographic technology! Of course, it's the only example! Yeah, that's the ticket! What's next? It came from Atlantis?

You know what your statement says to me? This: "I really, really want to be an atheist". That's it. Anyway, enough throwing pearls before swine. if you don't want to see it, you'll never see it.

[j.havenfarm]

Amen, friend. Gotta go - 'night all.

[gcruse]

You know what your statement says to me? This:
"I really, really want to be an atheist". That's it. Anyway, enough throwing
pearls before swine. if you don't want to see it, you'll never see it.

That wasn't my statement.    I included the
url links for my posts, which is more than
you did to back up yours.  If you wish
to refute the points the authors made,
I'm sure they will appreciate being corrected.

[Dinsdale]

if you don't want to see it, you'll never see it.

And if you want to see it no amount of carbon dating or plausable ways it could have developed will convince you otherwise.

It certainly was'nt a photographic technique. Cloths laying on bodys (in any era) can be stained by molds etc where there is contact. Also a statue heated then overlayed with a cloth produces images very like those on the shroud. Almost certainly a midevil fraud, just like the 'saint blood' that is supposed to reliquify on call (which has been reproduced using period chemicals and methods, does'nt change anything or anybodys beliefs).

The most cynical thing I've ever read is 'Life is like a long meeting, nothing gets resolved and nobodies opinions get changed'