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1st December 2015, 03:33 AM | #1761 |
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...I hope this is not odd topic, but I will be offline for most of the day, at part II of my TESOL workshop.
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1st December 2015, 04:36 AM | #1762 |
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- I'm going to switch over to considering the entries to M&P's Addendum for significant evidence-- something I should have done before. In their addendum, they don't even include the Delorenzi impression.
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You based your argument for consilience on those "entries." If you are abandoning that now then you abandon your argument for consilience. You were told in no uncertain terms that such an argument could not hold without individualized examination of the lines of evidence. Therefore by your unwillingness to continue, you have conceded that argument.
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Hence the question to you is how many of those original sources have you read? Later I will list them by name and I will ask you, for each book or publication on the list, to indicate whether you have actually read it. When we are suitably assured that you are not simply once again credulously reporting third hand, then we can consider your request to change horses. Naturally if you intend to represent that this new document provides a consilient view of the available evidence, as before, then just as naturally you will be required to address each item in turn, in isolation. If you intend to represent the reported work as expert testimony, then we will judge it according to the established criteria and decide whether it qualifies and how credible it is. You will be expected to be familiar with those criteria and to be willing and able to satisfy them. |
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No matter how many times this is pointed out to him, Jabba still seems to think that the C14 dating is the only reason why we don't accept his authenticity claim. Unless and until he presents positive evidence in favor of authenticity there's no reason to consider it. So far he's tried "blood" and "scientists can't recreate it" as evidence but both have been demolished for a variety of reasons.
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If he wants to make an affirmative claim that the cloth is the burial shroud of Jesus, then he still has to account for contrary evidence. That means he can't avoid the 14C evidence. So his present activity is not inappropriate. But it is absolutely correct that refuting that evidence does not establish authenticity. At best it would show that the cloth is slightly less likely to be a medieval forgery.
Jabba has said he is not aiming to prove the cloth is authentic. He says he's just "weighing evidence." In order to do that, he would have to provide evidence to weigh. Right now the only actual evidence comes down unanimously on the side of the cloth being a forgery. |
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Oh sure, I never believed his claim. I want to make clear that none of this posturing relieves him. Undermining a refutation doesn't prove the affirmative claim that was refuted. Weighing evidence is pointless if you have no evidence. Factor in the cherry-picking of this debate for rosy presentation at his own site, and you have the classic pattern of the fringe claimant: do everything one can to create the illusion of having survived rigorous examination without actually undergoing it.
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I know you aren't. I've been over the previous threads, and I'm not in a hurry to revisit prior claims. For now, Jabba seems to think casting aspersions on 14C findings is what he wants to do. It's necessary, as I outline above, but by no means probative -- especially of authenticity. A claim of authenticity fails by contradiction according to the carbon dating. A claim of authenticity fails by starvation if it lacks any affirmative proof.
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If you want to see why everyone's patience is at an end:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com...1#post10772681 Agatha created a chart which was, unsurprisingly, ignored. He could have easily added some points into the chart, and subsequent lists to give some evidence in favor of authenticity, but he has ignored every request. Every attempt at discussion with him proved futile. |
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Jabba, here are the sources cited by Marino and Prior in the document ("Addendum") you say you wish to consider in lieu of their previous work which you have now abandoned. The Addendum consists of excerpts from these works, accompanied by the authors' comments, interpretations, and other arguments. We do not accept Marino and Prior as faithful reporters, for reasons we have already given and with which you explicitly agreed. Therefore if you are going to use their summaries and excerpts, we require you to be familiar yourself with their source material in order to rule out such unfair usage as has been seen in your authors' other pertinent work. Therefore for each source in this list, please indicate to what extent you have read it. Please do this before using the Addendum in any further argument.
Gove, H. Relic, Icon or Hoax: Carbon Dating the Turin Shroud. Kersten, H., Gruber, E. The Jesus Conspiracy: The Turin Shroud and the Truth about the Resurrection. Meacham, W. The Rape of the Turin Shroud: How Christianity’s Most Precious Relic Was Wrongly Condemned and Violated. Rogers, R. A Chemist’s Perspective on the Shroud of Turin. If you plan to cite items in the Addendum as expert testimony, then the source material becomes subject to the criteria needed to establish testimony as expert. This will require, for each citation, an affirmative underlayment of suitable foundation, including but not limited to: field of expertise of the cited authority, access of the cited authority to appropriate data, basis of the authority's statement in enumerable and particularized evidence, nature of the statement, and concordance among similarly qualified authorities. Do you agree those are reasonable expectations? |
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Indeed I would lose patience too. As Zooterkin noted, I'm a new poster in this topic, although not new to the larger debate. As such I have no need or desire to rehash previous tired claims. I'm looking at Jabba's claims in the here and now. As you can see, I'm perfectly willing to apply the larger perspective to see where the here-and-now fits. But replaying prior debate is neither necessary nor useful. Jabba's reputation is well established.
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I know, I know. But as a long-time poster in many other threads, I'm very sensitive to endless resets and recycles. In fact, a few other contributors at ISF have as their signature quotes something I said to the effect that the aim of fringe claimants is not to achieve any sort of resolution to their claims, but to spin the debate endlessly. I'm sure no one is more acutely aware of that than those who have engaged Jabba over the past few years.
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And yet Jabba continues to insist that anything that, in his opinion, casts doubt on the carbon dating should be added to his mythical "pro-authenticity pan", when if he could somehow completely discredit the carbon dating all it would do would be to remove the carbon dating from the "anti-authenticity pan". |
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Good Evening, Mr. Savage:
Here is an opportunity for you to learn: Item #1 makes an unsubstantiable claim about something Dr. McCrone is alleged to have said; then proceeds with the not-unexpected smears against the Good Doctor. (Notice: "...supposedly proved his theory...", and, even more typically, "...[McCrone] believed that the area from which the sample was actually taken, might have contained repairs...") (Italics added) What is lacking? Evidence. Evidence along the lines of, "here is the rent; there the repair; these the egregious threads." Not to mention the fact, as has been poinited out to you, that smearing the 14C dating does not advance your idea that the linen of the CIQ must be ~2000 years old. It is still true that the reason you think it must be ~2000 years old is that you decided, before you began your investigations, that the CIQ was the "True Shroud" (despite all of the problems unrelated to the 14C dating that have been pointed out to you. You might find this interesting... Do consider dropping this rearguard action,and addressing whatever positive evidecen you have that the CIQ is, in fact, ~2000 years old. |
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As long as you're jumping the gun, let me jump with you.
The sources to which Marino and Prior refer are, broadly speaking, mostly self-published books written by people who were not directly involved in the scientific testing of the cloth, but who have various theories and speculations about the problems it engendered. The face-palming moment comes when you realize that these authors have incompatible theories for what happened with the carbon dating. The Marino-and-Prior indirection allows Jabba to pretend there are a couple dozen reasons to distrust the dating. But in fact they are not a coherent or harmonious whole. They cannot in any way, shape, or form be considered a body of consilience because they argue different scenarios for what happened. They in fact contradict each other on such fundamental reasons such as why the date arrived at the 14th Century. |
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Beautifully said.
I would only add, as emphasis, that the reason the "theories" are all over the map, disagreeing with each other willy-nilly, is not that threre is evidence that must be explained, but that the 14C dating came back with the "wrong" date. It's special pleading all the way down... |
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- Accepting that no single entry is especially 'meaty,' I want to work my way through each entry to see if I can develop some meaningful consilience. I'll have to go back over your different objections and see if I can answer them. I'll start with #1 in the addendum.
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The question asked why are you changing horses. You don't know anything about Marino and Prior's motives, and we're not interested in your speculation about it. You do know your reasons for suddenly abandoning their paper, and we'd like to hear them.
If it was because, as you suggest, their evidence was too weak to matter, then I think we agree. Which raises the next question: why would you consider other works by those same authors? And after your suspension is up, please answer this post, which you seem to have overlooked. |
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