Old Dirty Linen

Fascinating.

The Shroud of Turin is much older than suggested by radiocarbon dating carried out in the 1980s, according to a new study in a peer-reviewed journal.
A research paper published in Thermochimica Acta suggests the shroud is between 1,300 and 3,000 years old.

The author dismisses 1988 carbon dating tests which concluded that the linen sheet was a medieval fake.

The shroud, which bears the faint image of a blood-covered man, is believed by some to be Christ's burial cloth.

Now, there are several things that the reader should take away from this story. First, it should be noted that efforts were taken to discredit the cloth in the first place, by scientists. The second is that those tests were horribly erroneous. The third is that, even with a revised (and more appropriate) sample, the age range of the Shroud through notoriously inaccurate radiocarbon dating is still seventeen hundred years.

Woe to he who puts blind faith in science.