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Carbon Dating & The Shroud of Turin

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the templars-and-the-aliens-made-it dept.

BlackTyranny writes "The Shroud of Turin, carbon dated in 1978 by a team of scientists, may be far older than originally thought. Raymond N. Rogers, a retired chemist from the University of California-operated Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, part of the original team, used samples given to him in 2003 from the Cardinal of Turin's scientific advisor. Roger's contends that the carbon dating might be faulty because "the people who cut the sample didn't do a very good job of characterizing the samples," that is, taking samples from many areas of the cloth." I think the shroud 'Patch' may be made of the big foot suit. ;)

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  1. Carbon date this, bitches by cornjchob · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post prost first two in two days

    oh um, relevant comment

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    1. Re:Carbon date this, bitches by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Dude...u got beaten by the GNAA

  2. Re:Face imprint gives away the fake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What about the genitalia? If the face image is preserved, why not the genitalia. Is God not proud of his creation (the one that keeps every one "going"?
    I am interested to know whether God is a man or a Woman. Can the investigators spend few more millions of dollars to answer that crucial question. If God is a man as the Pope claims(!), does size matter?