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Old 12th November 2012, 07:13 AM   #4051
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Originally Posted by Jabba View Post
- The following is why, in broadest terms, the issue of blood and “serum clot retraction rings” is relevant to our debate re the validity of a carbon dating of the 14th century for the Shroud.
- I claim that the probability of a 14th century artist being able to create an image that includes numerous “serum clot retraction rings” on it approaches zero. Since I constitute one of the sides in this debate, my claim is relevant by definition.
- See what I mean?
Claim what you like, it has no bearing on the validity of carbon dating.

You have yet to demonstrate that there are any "serum clot retraction rings", nor, if there were, that they could only have been made in the first century.
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