Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: conan@wish-bone.berkeley.edu (David Cruz-Uribe) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: The Shroud of Turin Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 91 08:31:05 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article gross@dg-rtp.dg.com (Gene Gross) writes: [ Material about the Shroud of Turin deleted for space ] After a number of years of hesitation, the Vatican allowed three small samples to be cut from the edge of the shroud for carbon-14 testing. All three tests indicated that--to within approximately 100 years--the shroud dated from the early 14th century, which coincides very well with its appearance in history. A number of theories (most of them far-fetched in my opinion) have been advanced to overcome this result. My favorite theory is that the shroud is actually a "relic" sold to a crusader at the time of the sack of Constantinople. (This would require stretching the error estimates on the C-14 dating a bit, but not unreasonably.) No one, to my knowledge, has reconciled the C-14 dating with the other evidence compiled during the earlier examinations. Is that earlier evidence now to be seen as wishful thinking, or is there more going on here? Yours in Christ, David Cruz-Uribe, SFO