The carbon dating is meaningless. IIRC, the part of the Shroud tested wasn’t even from the original material.
Anyone who denies the authenticity of the Shroud has to explain the unexplainable: The fact that the image exists only on the surface of the fibers. No pigment of any sort is present. The image is a negative. The image is composed entirely of distance information. The concept of a negative, and the concept of an image made of distance information (distance of the skin from the cloth), were both inconceivable to anyone in the 13th-14th century, and the Shroud’s exact whereabouts are known even before that.
It is simply preposterous to assert that the cloth was not wrapped around the corpse of Jesus of Nazareth, and that it does not bear (as a result of a mysterious event) an image of him, beaten with a Roman instrument, crowned with thorns, crucified, dead of asphyxiation caused by hanging on a cross, and pierced with a lance. It’s all there on the cloth.
Fascinating facts. I am going to read the whole article on that post today.
Like I said, I believe in Jesus either way, but it is a beautiful image and I would love to see it in person.