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Iscool, her's your problem. You are interpreting "real" and "substantial" as meaning "physiological," as if a consecrated Host would be expected to flex its biceps, wink at you, scratch its ears, etc..

I never even implied the flesh was physiological (functioning as a living organism)...Are we playing on what words like physiological mean???

I know what real means to the world and to those who write dictionaries...Does the Catholic religion have its own private interpretation what real means??? I have a feeling that would come as a shock to most Catholics that the flesh is not real flesh as we understand real...

But don't try to send me on a Catholic goose chase...If real flesh doesn't mean real flesh in Catholic circles, then why don't you explain to me and other uneducated Catholics what it does mean, to the Catholic religon...I'm sure they'd like to know as well...

So the host turns into the real flesh of Jesus, but not the real, real flesh of Jesus...Now that's a new one for me...

Here's what you said:

"..Send me a hand full of them wafers and I’ll have them tested...If they all show DNA, the world can then be silenced from the criticism of your religion."

...and...

"Then they do not turn into the flesh and blood of anything...Flesh and blood have DNA..."

Here you're talking about flesh and blood whose physical properties are limited to those specified by DNA. It's not possible to say that Christ's Eucharistic/Resurrected Body's properties are totally unrelated to DNA, but these properties are not limited by DNA. There isn't any gene or group of genes that enables Christ to disappear, or reappear, or walk through locked doors, or bilocate.

More to the point: it isn't DNA that enables Christ to take on the appearance of a Lamb that was slain, or a flash of light from heaven, or a gardener, or a man whose face shines like the sun, or a stranger on the road to Emmaus, or a tremendous celestial being holding seven stars, or a small disc of bread or a draft of grape wine.

It's not DNA that enables Him to assume these appearances.

Do you suppose the Lamb that was slain, standing in the middle of the throne in heaven, has sheep DNA? Ya think?

It's all quite mysterious, and we have only the merest of hints, but we shouldn't assume that Christ's DNA limits and controls His appearance. There is one Christ. He has one Body; He has as many appearances as He wants.

Bartholomeus Sprenger's "Noli Me Tangere"
Christ appears as a gardener.

You redeemed us, Lord, in your blood.
Worthy is the Lamb who was slain.