New Book: The Shroud Story

From Catholic News:

Researcher claims fresh evidence of Shroud of Turin's authenticity


A Sydney researcher claims in a new book that the mainstream media is ignoring new scientific evidence which proves that the Shroud of Turin dates from the time of Christ, not the Middle Ages as previous carbon dating suggests.

In a new book, The Shroud Story, Sydney researcher and author, Brendan Whiting, says that the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin is supported by the most recent findings, according to a Catholic Weekly report.

Previous carbon dating of the linen cloth, believed to have been the burial shroud of Jesus, suggested it was from the 14th century, but Mr Whiting's book says the earlier testing was done on samples chemically different to the rest of the cloth - and in fact were actually remnants of invisible mending carried out in the Middles Ages.

He says this information means that there is now no scientific evidence supporting any argument against the shroud, now housed in Turin's cathedral, being 2000 years old.

The carbon dating was carried out in three independent laboratories in 1988. The results were used by skeptics and the mainstream press to label the shroud a fake and a fraud.

"Many people were falsely led to believe that the shroud's life-size image of a naked crucified man is a medieval forgery," Mr Whiting said.

"But recent scientific tests proved the carbon-dating result was anomalous.

"In 2005 the corner of the cloth from which the test sample had been taken was proved [by the late Los Alamos physical chemist Raymond Rogers] to be totally different in chemical composition from the main part of the cloth.

"It was found to contain cotton threads that were woven in the edge of the original cloth during invisible-mending in the Middle Ages, so causing the dating of the shroud to be younger than its true age."

Mr Whiting said this evidence has been ignored by the mainstream media to date.

The book lists the accumulated findings by an international group of 24 scientists that the Shroud of Turin is the surviving evidence of the crucified Christ.

Their studies of the cloth's body-image formation concluded: "the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth from the dead cannot be rejected on scientific ground".

Mr Whiting spent four years researching the book which will be launched by New South Wales Minister for Commerce John Della Bosca later this month.

Comments

[alex ziady]

John 20:5-7 proves the shroud a fake

[alex ziady]

John 20:5-7 proves the shroud of turin is fake. How did this get missed, or did it? who benifitted most from the fraud?

[KSP]

Perhaps we should be looking at this from God's point of view. He has a massive mind, he sees across time itself, and has designed everything as is for a purpose. Therefore, the gathering concern over a shroud, could be to draw attention to a common point, for a specific reason.
At this point in time, most people have lost interest in Bible Codes, and have assumed that all codes are a farce. Is Satan directing the sheep away from truths. After all, just because one $20 dollar bill is counterfeit, does not mean that all bills are counterfeit. So how has stupidity of such a huge magnitude managed to make its way into the minds of so many?

http://www.outersecrets.com/real/biblecode_shroud_turin.htm
http://www.outersecrets.com/real/biblecode2.htm

You be the judge. Don't forget that if your ( beliefs / disbeliefs ) direct you, then it is less than truth that directs you, since there is a GAP between a belief and a truth, and thus a belief is a belief, and a truth is a truth. Thus belief systems can be used to keep you away from truths.

[RJZ]

The c14 test don't just "SUGGEST" a 1300's date for the Shroud - it proves it. The real lack of proof is in believing the sample was taken from a mended/rewoven section. There is too small a sample (lack of evidence) to prove the area is not representative of the shroud.
Get over your BLIND faith - take a real look at the figure depicted on the shroud - it's too easy to see IT'S NOT REAL - too many things wrong with it anatomically. Your wanting to make it real - doesn't make it real.

[Allen J]

Apparently his reweaving theory was accurate, watched a Discovery Channel documentary on it. Seems the mainstream Shroud scientists are now convinced the sample used for the carbon 14 dating was from a 14th Century repair. Googled some links on it.

http://www.shroud.com/pdfs/review01.pdf

http://www.advancedchristianity.com/DatingTheShroud/DatingTheShroud.htm

http://www.catholicweekly.com.au/article.php?classID=1&subclassID=2&articleID=5248&class=News&subclass=CW+National