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Originally Posted by Graham

That Carbon Dating isn't as reliable as many people thought is a well known fact to those who know more about the subject than just what they read in the papers. It is subject to contamination and can be affected by environmental conditions.

However what is, as usual, most irritating, is the ludicrous headline which claims "THE PROOF THAT THIS IS THE FACE OF CHRIST" which is nonsense. Ok, they qualify it underneath with "FRESH CLUE SHOWS TURIN SHROUD MAY BE GENUINE", but it is not *proof* by any means.

And by the time you get to the body of the piece, this has been watered down further to "But new evidence suggests the shroud might be genuine after all."

(My emphasis in all cases).

Unfortunately we then get "stitching on the shroud which could have been created only during the messiah's lifetime has been uncovered." which, again, is nonsense. It's stitching of a *type* that has been seen in 1st Century artefacts, but by no means could it *only* have been created at that time.

The whole article continues in this vein claiming facts and proof when there is only opinion and supposition and it's a typical piece of sloppy tabloid hack-work.

Yeah but it's a great story though