What do you think about the Shroud of Turin?

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stradial

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I find the Shroud of Turin interesting.
Even though carbon testing has come back saying the shroud is from the middle ages, I find it an interesting subject.

Do you think that it is the actual shroud of Jesus?

I am still open to the question.
While the C14 dating is compelling, there are some who have reasons why it could have been skewed.
 
It's an interesting story but unless they have some way to scientifically match it with proven DNA of Jesus then I'd have to say it's just that, a story. It may be a shroud from His time but there were many people living back then.
 
It's a fake. Carbon dating showed that it's a fake.

I got in trouble with one of the local Catholics for telling my Chemistry classes it was fake and using the evidence while teaching about radiocarbon dating and radioactive half life.

Apparently he tells his CCD class that it is real. So, now I'm undermining the church...
 
Waski_the_Squirrel said:
It's a fake. Carbon dating showed that it's a fake.

I got in trouble with one of the local Catholics for telling my Chemistry classes it was fake and using the evidence while teaching about radiocarbon dating and radioactive half life.

Apparently he tells his CCD class that it is real. So, now I'm undermining the church...
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What about the scientists who say that due to the fire it was in, the carbon dating was skewed?
 
But this topic bring to mind another, would Jesus have a traceable DNA since He is the Son of God? If so, could that lend credibility to The Da Vinci Code? :sermon
 
stradial said:
Waski_the_Squirrel said:
It's a fake. Carbon dating showed that it's a fake.

I got in trouble with one of the local Catholics for telling my Chemistry classes it was fake and using the evidence while teaching about radiocarbon dating and radioactive half life.

Apparently he tells his CCD class that it is real. So, now I'm undermining the church...
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What about the scientists who say that due to the fire it was in, the carbon dating was skewed?
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The amount of carbon needed to change the results is far too much to be realistic. Not only would the fire have had to add carbon, it would have had to add a high amount of a specific isotope of carbon. Also, the herringbone pattern of the weave was not known at the time of His burial, let alone for a burial shroud. Any weave at that time would have been quite plain.

Some people are so desperate for proof of God that they will grasp at any straw. I ask why He needs to prove He exists?

ETA: actually, the Bible itself discredits the shroud in John 20:1-6

Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie, And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself...
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Traditional burial practice at the time was multiple wrappings which this verse backs up.
 
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