Blogs1 - 9 of 9 recent posts for tag:"carbon 14 dating"
23
Nov
2009
The Mummy at the Georges Labit Museum in Toulouse

23 days ago by Episcopalian

Carbon dating on a mummy at the Georges Labit Museum in Toulouse, France showed that it was from about 1800 B.C. The tests had laid waste to the opinion of some Egyptologists that it was only from around 700 B.C. That is a whopping difference of more than a thousand years. Thirty-eight hundred years ...

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20
Oct
2009
Richard Dawkins on the Shroud of Turin

58 days ago by Episcopalian

Richard Dawkins discusses the Shroud in his latest book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, (September 22, 2009). Obviously, he is being selective with evidence. Here is what he says: [Carbon dating] has revolutionized archaeological dating. The most celebrated example is the Sh ...

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19
Oct
2009
Philip Ball on Thermochimica Acta Paper

59 days ago by Episcopalian

Shortly after Rogers published his finding, in Thermochimica Acta, Philip Ball wrote an opinion piece for Nature, the journal that had published the carbon dating results in 1989. Ball wrote: The scientific study of the Turin Shroud is like a microcosm of the scientific search for God. It does more ...

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Skeptical Dictionary Position Softened

59 days ago by Episcopalian

Robert Carroll’s Skeptics Dictionary has softened its once hardnosed refutation of the cloth’s authenticity since Thermochimica Acta published Rogers’ findings: Of course, the cloth might be 3,000 or 2,000 years old, as Rogers speculates, but the image on the cloth could date from a much later perio ...

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Can Bioplastic Polymer Coating on Shroud of Turin Explain the Carbon 14 Date

59 days ago by Episcopalian

From Ray Rogers’ FAQ: No. Stephen Mattingly of the University of Texas has proposed a hypothesis that a "bioplastic" coating on the Shroud produced an error in the 14C analysis that was used in obtaining the 1988 age estimate for the Shroud of Turin. He also proposed that common skin bacteria produc ...

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Future Scientific Study Options Following 2002 Restoration

59 days ago by Episcopalian

From Ray Rogers’ FAQ: ( Answer for this question is the same as for The 1532 fire and image properties, as published) Although the fire of 1532 nearly destroyed the Shroud, it created opportunities for many types of chemical studies. We would never use the same destructive methods of observation on ...

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Other Ways than Radiocarbon to Date Shroud of Turin-Carbon 14

59 days ago by Episcopalian

From Ray Rogers’ FAQ: Archaeologists use many different methods to estimate the age of artifacts and/or soil strata that contain artifacts. One of the most important ways is to observe changes in technology: methods used to make tools change with time. There is a big difference between the hand axes ...

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17
Oct
2009
So what if the Shroud of Turin is a fake: Misses some points

60 days ago by Episcopalian

John Dodge over at smartplanet has written a level-headed article entitled So what if the Shroud of Turin is a fake. I have no problem with his skepticism. I do with perception of facts. I once shared his skepticism about the Shroud. No longer. But I do share the so what: I’ve inserted some comments ...

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