Real fake Fake fake
An Italian scientist says he has reproduced the Shroud of Turin, a feat that he says proves definitively that the linen some Christians revere as Jesus Christ’s burial cloth is a medieval fake.
The shroud, measuring 14 feet, 4 inches by 3 feet, 7 inches bears the image, eerily reversed like a photographic negative, of a crucified man some believers say is Christ.
“We have shown that is possible to reproduce something which has the same characteristics as the Shroud,” Luigi Garlaschelli, who is due to illustrate the results at a conference on the para-normal this weekend in northern Italy, said on Monday.
# 8 bobbo, “the earth may be more than 7000 years old.”
Hell. I’ve got underwear older than that. I do not wish to talk about the eerily reversed skid marks in the cloth.
#1 — “Just because you can “duplicate” something does not automatically make it a fake.”
True.
But the advent of the anti-shroud is a harbinger of the Apocalypse.
Most consider it to be much to young to be anything other than a fake but nobody has been able to make a good copy.
The cloth has been in the Holy land. The pollen on it proves that and it is very ancient.
One side issue is that old cloth can get a varnish of younger life forms that will throw off the C-14 date but I’m not claiming this is the real deal.
The C-14 tests were shown to be from an area of the cloth that was repaired by nuns. I cannot say that the shroud is real or not but nothing done so far PROVES it is a fake. The only thing done so far is prove that a similar image can be created through artificial means. The C-14 tests are so far inconclusive.
Do I believe in God, Yes I do. But I also believe that man is inherently flawed so ANY interpretation of the “word of god” is also flawed.
As for an afterlife, who knows I hope there is, but am I counting on it—NO!
#41, Animby,
Hell. I’ve got underwear older than that.
Ya? Well my son does too!!! But he is saving his for a special occasion.