Tuesday March 08, 2005 Shroud of Turin Dating
Raymond N. Rogers, a retired fellow of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, has published a paper entitled: "Studies on the radiocarbon sample from the Shroud of Turin". The paper was published on January 20 in the peer-reviewed journal Thermochimica Act. Rogers' paper concludes:
"As unlikely as it seems, the sample used to test the age of the Shroud of Turin in 1988 was taken from a rewoven area of the Shroud. Pyrolysis-mass spectrometry results from the sample area coupled with microscopic and microchemical observations prove that the radiocarbon sample was not part of the original cloth of the Shroud of Turin. The radiocarbon date was thus not valid for determining the true age of the Shroud."
While this does not prove the authenticity of the Shroud, it indicates that certain skeptics should be consistent by applying a level of skepticism to not only the bases of claims of authenticity, but also to the bases of counterclaims.
( Mar 08 2005, 02:41:35 AM PST )
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