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To: Alex Murphy

“There is a relic of dry blood which, as the Cardinal Archbishop moves the reliquary, liqufies and visibly flows again.”

Yeesh... if it liquefied on its own in a controlled, pressure, humidity, and temperature invariant environment, while motionless, I might be impressed.

As it is, the bishop is imparting a temperature difference by contact with a warm human body (and friction), and applying a shear force by moving the dried fluid. Both of those actions could cause viscous, dried fluids to re-liquify, with no miracle required.


10 posted on 09/19/2014 11:57:04 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
As it is, the bishop is imparting a temperature difference by contact with a warm human body (and friction), and applying a shear force by moving the dried fluid. Both of those actions could cause viscous, dried fluids to re-liquify, with no miracle required.

And of course you can cite secular experts or sources that will confirm your position.

135 posted on 09/21/2014 4:15:15 AM PDT by verga (Conservative, leaning libertarian)
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To: Boogieman

“Both of those actions could cause viscous, dried fluids to re-liquify, with no miracle required.”

Do it. Get some human blood, dry it out, then re-liquefy it the same way.


163 posted on 09/21/2014 1:40:13 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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