(July 20, 2015 at 5:55 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Randy, do you honestly think that a painting containing A shroud- that you preume based on nothing to be THE shroud- some data that suggests that the C14 dating MIGHT be off- that you presume to be so based on nothing- and an argument from ignorance- "science can't explain this!"- are evidence at all for the shroud's authenticity, sufficient to believe that? Really?
People who believe that the shroud is authentic have goat shit for brains. For it to be real the following events would have to have happened.
1. The body gets wrapped in the fashion that resulted in the images.
2. The zombie rises.
3. Someone sees the shroud and thinks that it will make a nifty souvenir. So that person takes it home to show the local yokels.
4. About 35 years later Jerusalem gets sacked and some Roman trooper finds the shroud in some dusty hovel. It seems to be fancy with some guy's corpse image on it so he puts it in his poke as a war trophy.
5. Later on the trooper returns to Italy and shows it to his buddies in his home town. It stays in the family for centuries while Rome and Italy is sacked by invaders.
6. Over 1,200 years later some monk hears about the rag and steals it for his monastery.
7. And whammo! Here it is in 2015 and the superstitious twits swear that it's real.
8. I once met a guy who claimed that he walked all the way from the moon. I asked how he was able to do that. He said that he walked on the moon beams during the full moon.
