Wednesday, April 12, 2006

WorldNetDaily: Author: Shroud of Turin wrongly condemned

The reason: those who dated the Shroud for carbon-14 did it wrong--which is actually a common-enough mistake, and yet another reason to call carbon-14 dating into question. Not to say that the Shroud has to be authentic for Christ to have been Real--Christianity does not depend on relics. (The Second Commandment forbids that sort of thing.) But it is of a piece with multiple earlier re-examinations of dismissals of biblical stories--like the supposed non-existence of Nineveh.