Italian scientists says Holy Shroud dating inaccurate

In 1988, carbon-14 tests concluded that the Shroud of Turin, the piece of cloth widely regarded by history as having wrapped the body of Jesus after his death, was a fake fabricated around the year 1260.

Italian scientists, however, are now debunking that this idea, claiming that the dating test did not work and that the laboratory hid errors.

Vatican insider Marco Tossati has repeated vital calculations and says that the original test was not valid.

Marco Tossati
Author, Investigation of the Holy Shroud
The labs didnt publish very many details. And it was evident that the ones they did publish had an error. It sounds like a small mistake, but its huge, because it means that the margin of trust of the entire test is well below the minimum that the laboratories stated.

The original carbon 14 test was performed in three parts by three separate laboratories that each tested on an eight centimeter piece cut from the shroud.

The discrepancy came when all three laboratories reported different results.

Marco Tossati
Author, Investigation of the Holy Shroud
Were not talking about religion. Were talking about numbers that dont leave room for discussion. The numbers are what they are. The test was not trustworthy, and they should explain why this is the case. They ended up with discrepancies that render the test invalid.

Scientists dont consider carbon-14 dating a perfect science and when used its usually tested against other methods. But it was a small detail that gave way to a discrepancy that, evidently, all three labs knew about.

Marco Tossati
Author, Investigation of the Holy Shroud
These same laboratories have had faulty results in the past. They said the tablecloth of one of the scientists mother-in-laws was 300 years old. Or that the bones of a mummy from Ibis dated from 1,500 years before Christ, and the cloth on her body from 200 years after Christ.

Until now, the carbon-14 test was the only method that rendered the Holy Shroud a fabrication. All other tests pointed the other way, suggesting the shroud was the original cloth that wrapped the body of Christ.

Thats why Marco Tossati and others are calling for new tests to determine the truth behind this historical piece of cloth that remains timeless.

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[LALMCGatorsfan]

If this is a fake who ever did it.. Is working against God not helping. When you start trying to prove something fake... all you do is take away faith. THAT IS WHAT JESUS CHRIST IS ALL ABOUT. BELIEVEING IN HIM THROUGH FAITH IN GOD! Knowing that he died for your sins and in he 3 days came up from the grave. THERE IS NO PROVE, GOD NEVER WANTED THERE TO BE.

[henrybrice86]

what I don't understand is why the shroud should have lots of little pictures of jesus' face on it?

Also, problems with the carbon 14 dating does not mean that the shroud is real, it only means that that test is inaccurate...

[upsilon054]

Okay, then the tests should be repeated. The video is interesting, but we aren't given enough information to make a judgement one way or the other.

[gabrielirlanda]

@lizazoon haha, I knew you was gonna say something like that, it is very easy answer, isn'it?...I know who my mother is and I know how I am, ok now go ahead. Good luck.

[lizazoon]

@gabrielirlanda Your education shows, calling John Calvin an atheist. Who cares whom your mother was in contact with. That`s a personal experience and is no evidence for anything.

[gabrielirlanda]

@lizazoon well scientists commits lot of mistakes too, in fact the world is getting hotter and no scientist knew that until this is happening, there are much more samples of science's mistakes

300 people to carry on the cross? was it made of steel? maybe its wght was 3 tons?

About that man JCalvin, well.. atheist there are 1 under each cup of tea. What I can assure u my mother had a contact with my dead aunt. God and life after life does exists. (Other phenom. things happened to us) Good luck

[lizazoon]

@gabrielirlanda John Calvin calculated that to carry all the relics of the holy cross, circulating in the christian world, you would need three hunderd people . As I said, it`s all a bit ridiculous.

[gabrielirlanda]

@lizazoon blood of Christ still exists on the Eucharist. If you want more read the life of Father Pio of Pietrelcina or go to gloriapolo dot commm and read the testimony in word document of a woman that visited Hell and Heaven after being in comma. We had lot of Divine experiences in my family. Of course there are a lot of bad people that takes advance of the religion and sell anything, but the real thing exists, believe me.

[trackstar789]

@thesnake52000 Do you know how many fake shrouds exist? How do we know that quote is about the the one we talk about today?

[trackstar789]

@QuestioProVerum The discrepancy is they all came out with different results the news women said that... the results were very far apart too far to be explained by the margin of error.