> -----Original Message----- > From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 12:20 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Oh dear God no..... > > BTW - an excellent article for information on the latest in Shroud > science and research and current scientific understanding of it can be > found at: > > http://www.skepticalspectacle.com/PapalCustodianvsVatican.htm > > What's particularly interesting is how the Church itself is hardly > helping in terms of proving the shroud as authentic and actually was > not at all happy about the carbon-14 dating being shown as inaccurate > as this was mainly due to them failing to follow scientific protocols. > They continue to cause problems for the scientists with the secret > restoration that was done a few years back, without any scientific > input.
Honestly I think this is one of the main reasons that there will be no closure on this. You can't have a real back and forth on the evidence when further, confirming testing isn't allowed. It's a hard to balance the need to protect the artifact with the inquiry, but (and again I've not looked into it nearly as much as you) most of the controversies would seem to be addressable with further tests. The carbon dating test, in specific - just do 'em damn it. Do 'em and do 'em right. Jesus wouldn't mind... take a bit of his foot or something. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:250265 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
