> http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/02/28/shroud-of-turin.html
>
> "Venerated by many Catholics as proof that Christ was resurrected from the
> grave, the shroud was eventually dismissed as a brilliant, medieval fake
> twenty years ago. Carbon-14 tests at three reputable laboratories in Oxford,
> Zurich and Tucson, dated it to between 1260 and 1390. After the tests, the
> Oxford laboratory's founding director, Edward Hall, told journalists:
> 'Someone just got a bit of linen, faked it up and flogged it.
>
> But shroud scholars, known as sindonologists, have always argued that no
> medieval forger could either have produced such an accurate fake or
> anticipated the invention of photography. Speculation about the linen cloth
> continued as well as debates over the validity of the carbon-14 tests.
>
> 'There is the possibility that new carbon-14 tests today will produce
> different results.'"
>
> "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and
> expecting different results." -- A. Einstein ...

>
> "Venerated by many Catholics as proof that Christ was resurrected from the
> grave, the shroud was eventually dismissed as a brilliant, medieval fake
> twenty years ago. Carbon-14 tests at three reputable laboratories in
> Oxford, Zurich and Tucson, dated it to between 1260 and 1390. After the
> tests, the Oxford laboratory's founding director, Edward Hall, told
> journalists: 'Someone just got a bit of linen, faked it up and flogged it.
>
> But shroud scholars, known as sindonologists, have always argued that no
> medieval forger could either have produced such an accurate fake or
> anticipated the invention of photography. Speculation about the linen
> cloth continued as well as debates over the validity of the carbon-14
> tests.
>
> 'There is the possibility that new carbon-14 tests today will produce
> different results.'"
> ...

> On 28 Feb, 16:50, "Tom" comcast.net> wrote:
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>

>>http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/02/28/shroud-of-turin.html

>

>> "Venerated by many Catholics as proof that Christ was resurrected from the
>> grave, the shroud was eventually dismissed as a brilliant, medieval fake
>> twenty years ago. Carbon-14 tests at three reputable laboratories in Oxford,
>> Zurich and Tucson, dated it to between 1260 and 1390.  After the tests, the
>> Oxford laboratory's founding director, Edward Hall, told journalists:
>> 'Someone just got a bit of linen, faked it up and flogged it.

>

>> But shroud scholars, known as sindonologists, have always argued that no
>> medieval forger could either have produced such an accurate fake or
>> anticipated the invention of photography.  Speculation about the linen cloth
>> continued as well as debates over the validity of the carbon-14 tests. ...