My Hacker Theory in a nutshell (2) #37
This is the first installment of "My Hacker Theory in a nutshell (2)," part #37 of my Turin Shroud Encyclopedia. It will help me write chapter 16, "Were the laboratories duped by a hacker?," of my book in progress, "Shroud of Turin: Burial Sheet of Jesus!" See Part 1..
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For more information about this 4-part series, see Part 1. In particular, 
[Right (enlarge): The Pray Codex (1192-95 )[07Mar14]: The Entombment of Christ (upper) and Three Marys [sic Mk 16:1-6] at the tomb (lower). The images are claimed as one of the evidences against the radiocarbon 14 dating of the Shroud of Turin (Wikipedia's words. My emphasis)[16Dec24]!]
to keep these posts as brief as possible, references will be to my previous posts on that topic. This is Part 2, "Evidence that the Shroud is older than the earliest 1260 radiocarbon date." The evidence will be under two main headings: "Historical evidence that the Shroud is older than 1260" and "Artistic evidence that the Shroud is older than 1260."
■ Part 2, Evidence that the Shroud is older than the earliest 1260 radiocarbon date.
• The Director of the Oxford radiocarbon dating laboratory, Prof. Christopher Bronk Ramsey, who as "C.R. Bronk" was a signatory to the 1989 Nature paper, and was involved in the dating, has admitted:
"There is a lot of other evidence that suggests to many that the Shroud is older than the radiocarbon dates allow ..." (My emphasis)[18Feb14; 07Mar14].• Ian Wilson rightly pointed out that if the 1260-1390 radiocarbon date of the Shroud is correct, there should be no evidence for the Shroud before 1260:[Since there is a lot of other evidence that ... the Shroud is older than the radiocarbon dates allow, then why doesn't Ramsey and the other signatories ask Nature to withdraw the 1989 Nature article on the grounds that it conflicts with the historical and artistic evidence?]
"Looking back in time from 1204, we are in a period in which, if the radiocarbon dating is to be believed, there should be no evidence of our Shroud. The year 1260 was the earliest possible date for the Shroud's existence by radiocarbon dating's calculations"[21Jun17][As we shall see, there are many items of evidence of what can only be the Shroud, long before 1260!]
Historical evidence that the Shroud is older than 1260
Artistic evidence that the Shroud is older than 1260
To be continued the second installment of this post.
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Posted 10 February 2025. Updated 10 February 2025.
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