Shroud of Turin Ža fakeŽ | |
Physicist (OP) 12/08/2005 10:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This experiment does not PROVE the Shroud of Turin is a fake. It merely demonstrates that it could have been faked. The distinction is very important, and anyone who jumps to this conclusion is not thinking scientifically. RogerŽs analysis, if confirmed, proves that the Shroud is old enough to be the burial cloth of Jesus. But it does not prove it be so. A hoaxer could have bought the linen in the 12th century from someone who had brought it back from the Middle East, when it was already hundreds of yeard old. This would explain why pollen from flowers growing around Jerusalem have been found in the material. The paint/dabbing theory cannot explain the discovery a year or two ago by an Italian physicist that the discoloration of fibres is confined to the surface of the shroud. If the image had been dabbed onto a sheet stuck to a sculpture or cadaver and the sheet then turned inside-out, the ferric oxide-gelatin mixture would have had to seep through the cloth in order to create the negative image. But the Italian scientist found no evidence of discoloration of fibres between the two surfaces of the sheet. Hence,Jacques di CostanzoŽs conclusions are inconsistent with this research. Perhaps someone should tell him. Evidently, he has not heard about this earlier research, which discredits his theory. |
stgeorge (OP) 12/08/2005 10:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I agree.Fake. Since Jesus did not die,He Ascended,where did the shroud come from? A body must be disposed of,this was a legal crucifixion and torture, what did they plan to do if he died? No record anywhere? There must have been a system,Jesus was not the only man crucified. |
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Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Actually, it sounds like they proved it could be real. "In January this year, a US chemist, Raymond Rogers, said the radiocarbon samples for the 1988 study were taken from a piece that had been sewn into the fabric by nuns who repaired the Shroud after it was damaged in a church blaze in 1532. Rogers said that his analysis of other samples, based on levels of a chemical called vanillin that results from the decomposition of flax and other plants, showed the Shroud could be "between 1 300 and 3 000 years old." |