Blue Mountain
Resident Skeptical Hobbit
Jabba, all this discussion about the blood is of no consequence. What part of of the phrase medieval artefact do you not understand?
- Blood on the shroud has numerous implications. For one, it suggests that the shroud was not painted.
So far, in this "at bat", you have one whiff. The count is 1-0. snip...
Not to be too pedantic, but this zombie of a thread has nothing new in it so I will point out that the count is, in fact, 0-1.
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If someone in New Mexico needs to catch up on their baseball acumen, the Albuquerque isotopes play in a pretty cool park. And the name of the team is almost tangentially related to this thread.
It has been pointed out to me that I reversed the numbers, thanks. I should remember that the balls come first.
Lord help us, are you punning again?
Slowvehicle,Heller and Adler "concluded" that they found "blood" because they had already "concluded: that the CIQ was "authentic". They, as you do, had assumed their consequent, and were willing to indulge in special pleading to any degree necessary.
They "concluded" the CIQ was "authentic" before they began...and only looked for any shred of anything that could be said to support their conclusion.
That is not, of course, how science is done.
Slowvehicle,
- Why do you say that they had already "concluded: that the CIQ was "authentic"?
Slowvehicle,
- Why do you say that they had already "concluded: that the CIQ was "authentic"?
Slowvehicle,
- Why do you say that they had already "concluded: that the CIQ was "authentic"?
Slowvehicle,...because, they, as do you, started out with a need for the CIQ to be "authentic"; and, instead of examining the evidence and developing a conclusion from the evidence, a conclusion supported by the evidence, they only looked for things that could be said to support the conclusion of "authenticity" at which they had already arrived...
Slowvehicle,
- But, on what do you base that claim? Everything I've read says the opposite. And, Adler was Jewish.
- I don't know about Heller, but the only person I know named Heller is also Jewish...
- As a matter of fact, I -- myself -- happen to be a member of a Jewish synagogue.
What does that have to do with anything?
And, as others have asked, did you read the actual paper? Is that part of "everything that you have read?"
- OK. Organic dyes have been available forever...
- Strike two.
- Now, I gotta go back and figure out why Heller and Adler were so sure that the porphyrin indicated blood. At one time or another, I've read most -- if not all -- of what Heller and Adler had to say about their conclusion of blood on the shroud. I just don't remember. I'll have to review all that stuff.
- I'll be back.
Hugh,
- If you're listening, you can probably summarize why they concluded blood.
Slowvehicle,
- But, on what do you base that claim? Everything I've read says the opposite. And, Adler was Jewish.
- I don't know about Heller, but the only person I know named Heller is also Jewish...
- As a matter of fact, I -- myself -- happen to be a member of a Jewish synagogue.