Has history been tampered with? The radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin?

Has history been tampered with? The reports of the radiocarbon dating of one of the most famous Christian holy objects -- the Shroud of Turin,-- caused a great resonance in 1988.

According to the traditional version, this piece of cloth bears the image of the body of crucified Christ and dates from the first century a.d., which is supposed to make it about two thousand years old.

However, radiocarbon datings have given a different dating: roughly 11th to 13th century a.d.
The radiocarbon analysis has been conducted in three laboratories -- in
Oxford University, Arizona University, and the Swiss Technological Institute in Zurich.
A scientific work specifically dedicated to the radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin claims the linen fabric that the shroud is made of to be produced between 1050 and 1350 a.d..
The result of the Shroud's radiocarbon analysis performed in the laboratory of the Oxford University is 1050 a.d.
The laboratories of Arizona and Zurich have given more recent datings, 1304 and 1274 respectively.

In the matter of independent dating of historical Jesus Christ we can choose:

Radiocarbon dating is true, but the Shroud of Turin is a medieval fake because it conflicts with consensual timeframe for historical Jesus Christ; and we do not have independent dating of historical Jesus Christ;

Radiocarbon dating is untrue, the Shroud of Turin is a true relic and Jesus Christ lived in first century A.D.;

Radiocarbon dating is 100% correct, so the Shroud of Turin is a true medieval relic; but consensual timeframe for historical Jesus Christ is utterly wrong; therefore we have independent dating of historical Jesus Christ within the timeframe of 1050 -1304 A.D.;

It has to be noted that this timeframe fits perfectly with the New Chronology theory of Professor Anatoly Fomenko, leading mathematician of our time, albeit he himself strongly refutes very use of radiocarbon dating for dating of historical artifacts!

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[mithec]

Chronology was a subdivision of Mathematics in the xvi-xvii century. Author`s objective is to return Chronology to the fold of applied mathematics. He does do not cancel events, artefacts, Pyramids, Great Walls, peoples and persons outright, but suggests to find their true position on the time axis. Google>books>fomenko

[mithec]

too bad. the word conspiracy is not a part the author`s vocabulary: : go to google or to amazon>to `more`> to `book search`>type keyword `fomenko`, read TOC or the whole book free of charge.

[mithec]

c14 is low precision because of: extreme sensitivity to contamination, unstable level c14 in atmosphere, nuclear tests, calibrated on samples of arbtrary presumed age. accumulated error +/- 1500 years. fails dismally all black box tests.

[mithec]

In many instances, items with known dates were given to several labs to be tested and the dates came back way off. So far off, in fact, to make radiodating a joke. It also does not take into consideration a different prehistoric atmosphere which would inhibit the sun's radiation from hitting the earth, thereby making radiocarbon dating extremely tentative. It relies on too many assumptions to make it scientifically accurate.

[mithec]

radiocarbon is some vicious circle: precision +/-1500 years, calibrated intially on the basis of consensual chronology therefore perfectly useless on the period of the last 2000 years, is widely used as selffulfilling prophecy...

[KongNito]

This video is funny!

[pamcra]

And egypt created during the renassaince? Please europeans wish

[pamcra]

Lmbo i wonder how many christians know this

[Flagrum3]

@georgiadrew Obviously not as STUPID as you, the carbon dating as been prooved to be ironious.Not that the dating was done incorrectly but that the sample taken was not an example of the whole shroud.A peer reviewed paper has been written and accepted on this, which was put forward by Raymond Rogers....Please do some reading (investigating).

[seamus921]

They sampled the wrong piece.See the History Channel.

[seamus921]

They sampled the wrong piece.See the History Channel.

[draconusrex33]

the carbon test was shown contaminated..retesting to be done in the future from a proper site.

[draconusrex33]

wrong ..the pollen,blood tests and weave pattern all disprove that theory.

[draconusrex33]

the carbon dating has since been shown to be contaminated with cotton from a repair job so the test has been thrown out.Scientists has requested material for a retest in the near future when the shroud goes on display again and they have an uncontaminated site already picked out.I hope the catholics allow it to be tested again.

[draconusrex33]

well mithec it seems your carbon dating was tainted and it looks like a true relic from the rest of the evidence ..now what?