The return of the shroud
29 January 2005 by RonHey look, it’s the return of the Shroud of Turin! You thought carbon-14 dating done in 1988 had shown it to be basically new when it showed up in the 14th century. But no! A retired chemist from Los Alamos is saying that, although said the carbon dating test was valid, the patch they carbon dated just happened to be a place that the cloth had been patched in the 14th century! The rest of it is as old as Jeezus.
Man. What were the odds that they took out exactly the one new piece? What a fluke!
Silly bit of flakiness? Sure. But the New York Times is taking it seriously: Shroud of Turin: Old as Jesus?
