Odd that science cannot explain it and what science cannot explain: for some that means it doesn't exist. Funny how they expect all knowledge to show up somewhere in a peer reviewed journal article, as if all potential discoveries were already known. I haven't read about the shroud in years and cannot claim that I believe it's Jesus's nevertheless it's quite mysterious in it's own right. I mean of all things to have a curious unexplained image on it ,it's not known as: the blanket of gautama the shawl of fatima the tie dye of john lenin the pajama's of mao or ho chi minh the tunic of vlad lenin the dirty sheet of abe lincoln the quilt of marx
Here: http://www.shroud.com/nature.htm Now READ! You could have looked this up yourself. You will see that the sample taken was appropriate and there is no question of "contamination" affecting the results.
Wrong again! That paper doesn't answer sample area and other problems with that analysis adequately including the smoke permeation throughout the shroud. And, the more recent dating cannot be ignored in light of the facts and the improvements made in the technology. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ad-holy-day-angering-Christians-internet.html Maybe you should learn to do a little further research about the problems of the earlier C-14 tests on your own before blindly closing your eyes. Everything on the Internet isn't black and white. You could have looked this up yourself!!! Read this and learn. http://shroudstory.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/carbon-14-dating-on-shroud-of-turin-were-botched-2008/ And then you completely ignore the pollen tests that indicated the grains of pollen were from the area around Jerusalem and dated earlier than the C-14 test results date. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990803073154.htm
That pretty much proves my point. And, if you had bothered to read the links I provided above, you would know there is more mentioned that the wiki page doesn't even touch on.
Then read this:http://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress...d-of-turin-is-not-the-burial-shroud-of-jesus/ Then read this reply to the above: Antonio Lombatti March 29, 2013 at 09:43 | Reply Typical Easter madness. Every year, around March or April, thereâs always a new and amazing âdiscoveryâ to date back this medieval relic to the time of Jesus. However, this time I donât even have to waste my time to reply to shroudologists: the Turin cardinal himself has declared that these latests tests are absolutely meaningless: http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/post...nessun-serio-valore-nuovi-studi-_8469741.html Thus spake the cardinal