(January 28, 2020 at 1:55 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: Bet DNA says mastadon, whale or elephant before it says dragon....Apparently glib, but raises an important point.
If the religious are so sure that <whatever religious artefact> is genuine, why would they fight tooth and nail to avoid testing at all cost?
Further, why does science have a reluctance to even engage in such testing?
The tablecloth of turin is a case in point. When subjected to scientific testing after years of resistance, the dating demonstrated it to be a medieval fake. Did the believers accept the results of those tests? Nope. They promptly rejected them. Because miracles.
It was a truly jaw dropping spectacle of elaborate pretzel logic.
Inevitably, science walked away. It matters not a whit what test results might be found, those will simply be denied, so what is the point?
The simple fact is that the ToS is a 13th/14th century work of art or fakery.
OR
Jesus was a white northern european so thin that one could slide him through the tiniest letterbox, having an impossible anatomy. When he died and resurrected, he became radioactive and imprinted his image on the tablecloth (radiation does not do that).
Just because.
Now, you may think I am engaging in hyperbole. I am not. Believers claim or have claimed all of that crap.
I wasted years debating this crap. All of it. And all of it is false.
Ironically, the entire lot is irrelevant because it gets the claimant no closer to their claimed deity.
