Time Magazine on the Radiocarbon Dating of the Shroud of Turin: Shroud of Turin Terms

Time Magazine on the Carbon 14 Dating of the Shroud of Turin; April 20, 1998 Vol. 151 No. 15

Predictably, the radiocarbon-dating crowd is dubious about Garza-Valdes' claims regarding the bioplastic film. Although he and Mattingly have reported on the topic itself, they have never published a peer-reviewed paper on their shroud work. 'The only people who have ever seen these bacteria are Drs. Mattingly and Garza-Valdes,' says Arizona's Timothy Jull. 'In my opinion, our sample of the shroud was very clean, and there was no evidence of any coating.' Even if the hypothetical varnish existed, Jull adds, the amount necessary to throw off the dating by 1,300 years would have been visible to the naked eye. Snipes U.C. Riverside's Taylor: 'At the present time, the 'bioplastic theory' has many of the characteristics of cold fusion,' the here-one-day-ridiculed-the-next physics fiasco of 1989.

Cutting map for the carbon 14 dating of the Shroud of Turin

	What is the Shroud of Turin? The Shroud Described.
	How the images might have formed. Images on the Shroud of Turin.
	Hints from Edessa, 544 AD. Early Shroud of Turin History.
	How a medieval artisan caused Carbon 14 Dating Errors.
	Startling, Mysterious, Unexplained. The 3D Encoding of the Shroud.
	The Variegated Cloth. Fooled by the Shroud's Background Noise.
	The Art Connection. Christ Pantocrator and the Shroud of Turin.
	Was the Shroud of Turin Described? Voices from the Past
	Medical Perspective: Forensic Pathology of the Images
	The Second Face: From the Back of the Cloth
	Some say . . . Painted, Leonardo da Vinci, Jacques deMolay, Coins, etc.