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The Shroud of Turin and the C-14 Dating Fiasco
The author presents a lengthy interview with Shroud scientists John Heller and Alan Adler, whose experiments proved the blood on the Shroud is real blood.
104 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1997
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August 18, 2024
THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT CRITIQUE OF THE 1988 C-14 TESTING OF THE SHROUD
Thomas W. Case is also the author of 'Moonie Buddhist Catholic: A Spiritual Odyssey.' He wrote in the Introduction to this 1996 book, "This book contains a lengthy personal interview with Shroud of Turin scientists John H. Heller ['Report of the Shroud of Turin'] and Alan D. Adler... [who, though] not members of the original 1978 STURP team who travelled to Italy to examine the Shroud, are nevertheless the most important of the many Shroud experts. It is their painstaking chemical analysis ... that established once and for all that the Shroud image could not have been a forgery...
"The two chemists also offer a considered critique of the Radiocarbon tests performed in 1988 and which purport to date the Shroud at around 1300 A.D. ... new experiments demonstrate the effects of the 1532 fire on Carbon-14 time-testing... a combination of reactions involving carbon-exchange could very easily have thrown off the Radiocarbon test date by some 1300 years." (Pg. 11-12)
He states, "What brings much greater doubt into the picture is a radiocarbon test performed at the University of California in 1982... It was a single thread. One end tested to 200 A.D., the other to 1000 A.D.... The early date, that of 200 A.D., has been grabbed onto by partisans to claim it means the Shroud is truly of Jesus's time. Unfortunately no such claim can be made... two dates from a single thread 800 or 1000 years apart ... [means] that the test itself is flawed beyond any and all validity.... you must throw out the test." (Pg. 32-33)
He cites researchers who estimate that "carbon exchange during the 1532 fire, combined with biofractionation in the flax plant, should provide corrections to the laboratory tests that would date the Shroud to first century A.D. The problem is that biofractionation and alkalization should skew the results of any radiocarbon tests on linen." (Pg. 36-37)
Dr. Adler stated during the interview about the recent experiments, "They reproduced conditions occurring in the fire. To everyone's amazement, the dating went in the opposite direction. The cloth tested younger instead of older. Now, we still don't know if that really is true for the Shroud. We only know it's true for a cloth that's been put under the conditions of the Shroud fire." (Pg. 78)
This book will be of great interest to anyone seriously studying the Shroud---particular in light of the 1988 C-14 test.
Thomas W. Case is also the author of 'Moonie Buddhist Catholic: A Spiritual Odyssey.' He wrote in the Introduction to this 1996 book, "This book contains a lengthy personal interview with Shroud of Turin scientists John H. Heller ['Report of the Shroud of Turin'] and Alan D. Adler... [who, though] not members of the original 1978 STURP team who travelled to Italy to examine the Shroud, are nevertheless the most important of the many Shroud experts. It is their painstaking chemical analysis ... that established once and for all that the Shroud image could not have been a forgery...
"The two chemists also offer a considered critique of the Radiocarbon tests performed in 1988 and which purport to date the Shroud at around 1300 A.D. ... new experiments demonstrate the effects of the 1532 fire on Carbon-14 time-testing... a combination of reactions involving carbon-exchange could very easily have thrown off the Radiocarbon test date by some 1300 years." (Pg. 11-12)
He states, "What brings much greater doubt into the picture is a radiocarbon test performed at the University of California in 1982... It was a single thread. One end tested to 200 A.D., the other to 1000 A.D.... The early date, that of 200 A.D., has been grabbed onto by partisans to claim it means the Shroud is truly of Jesus's time. Unfortunately no such claim can be made... two dates from a single thread 800 or 1000 years apart ... [means] that the test itself is flawed beyond any and all validity.... you must throw out the test." (Pg. 32-33)
He cites researchers who estimate that "carbon exchange during the 1532 fire, combined with biofractionation in the flax plant, should provide corrections to the laboratory tests that would date the Shroud to first century A.D. The problem is that biofractionation and alkalization should skew the results of any radiocarbon tests on linen." (Pg. 36-37)
Dr. Adler stated during the interview about the recent experiments, "They reproduced conditions occurring in the fire. To everyone's amazement, the dating went in the opposite direction. The cloth tested younger instead of older. Now, we still don't know if that really is true for the Shroud. We only know it's true for a cloth that's been put under the conditions of the Shroud fire." (Pg. 78)
This book will be of great interest to anyone seriously studying the Shroud---particular in light of the 1988 C-14 test.
May 23, 2014
I found this book very helpful in clearing some of the issues that were reported on the Shroud of Turin when it was Carbon dated. Very learned report of new studies that could actually date the Shround. Ah! Yes, the blood is real blood! The Shroud could really date from the time of Jesus, but more tests are required by a team of honest scientists.
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