That's OK. You're wrong, but it doesn't matter. Anyway, I've had a look. The thread at debate.atheist.net and Jabba's own shroud debates.com seem to have died down two years and one year ago respectively. godandscience is still current, though it seems a bit slow. I'll keep an eye on it in case it brightens up.
No, no, dear me, what suspicious minds you have! At the moment they're discussing Giulio Fanti's latest book/paper and ideas, which don't interest me much, so I won't wade in. A few posts back there's a reference to a long interview with Isobel Piczek, who describes how painting-like the shroud is, but then ascribes it to some very weird physics rather than an artist. In another site she is described as the leading theoretical particle physicist on the planet today, having been awarded her PhD in Physics and MA in Art in Hungary at the age of 13. I may feel like asking awkward questions there...
Suspicious with very good reason. Your internet history preceeds you, and that is most difficult to erase.
We understand you quite well; you have a desperate need top believe in a god and the shroud is a prop in that belief. The reality of the shroud's origin is a threat to that belief and thus must be denied.
Will you be embracing reality then?
So you'll accept evidence and stop repetitively posting previously debunked crap?
Very little, actually. The word Piczek brings up 5 previous mentions, none of which say much about her, and nothing at all about why she is almost invariably referred to as a physicist. Type "Isabel Piczek" into Google and you get 59000 hits. Add "-physicist" and it goes down to 2000. And is she a Dame? The term is used to denote a woman awarded the equivalent of a knighthood in Britain, but I don't know about Hungary.
Actually, I don't have to. The issue is, Jabba failed in his obligation. He jumped into this without doing the requisite background research--he started spouting off about the carbon dating without bothering to learn the most basic facts about how carbon dating works. He demonstrably failed to show a high-school level of understanding (according to the California science standards for 9th through 12th grade) of the subject.hughfarey said:
Not really. There is quite a lot in the second link about her and her sister as monumental artists, but nothing about the 'particle physicist' claim. In another place I have found that she is a Dame of the Pontifical Order of St Gregory, which clears that up. The first link in the post contains a misprint and leads to a "Not Found" notice, and the second link is now broken.
So much stupidity and pseudo-scientific nonsense crammed into so short a video................
