Shroud Encounter coming to the Richmond, Virginia area in March
Russ Breault and his SHROUD ENCOUNTER comes to J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, East Parham Road Campus, in Richmond, VA on Thursday, March 8th at 6:00 PM in the LTC Auditorium. Send this video to all who may interested in seeing this fascinating presentation.
Notice the exciting video announcing his presentation. Russ tells me that such videos will now be a part of the publicity plan for his talks. Wow, does this look great.
Shroud Encounter Promo–J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College–East Parham Road Campus from Russ Breault on Vimeo.
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Is the Shroud real? Probably.
The Shroud of Turin may be the real burial cloth of Jesus. The carbon dating, once seemingly proving it was a medieval fake, is now widely thought of as suspect and meaningless. Even the famous Atheist Richard Dawkins admits it is controversial. Christopher Ramsey, the director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Laboratory, thinks more testing is needed. So do many other scientists and archeologists. This is because there are significant scientific and non-religious reasons to doubt the validity of the tests. Chemical analysis, all nicely peer-reviewed in scientific journals and subsequently confirmed by numerous chemists, shows that samples tested are chemically unlike the whole cloth. It was probably a mixture of older threads and newer threads woven into the cloth as part of a medieval repair. Recent robust statistical studies add weight to this theory. Philip Ball, the former physical science editor for Nature when the carbon dating results were published, recently wrote: “It’s fair to say that, despite the seemingly definitive tests in 1988, the status of the Shroud of Turin is murkier than ever.” If we wish to be scientific we must admit we do not know how old the cloth is. But if the newer thread is about half of what was tested – and some evidence suggests that – it is possible that the cloth is from the time of Christ.
No one has a good idea how front and back images of a crucified man came to be on the cloth. Yes, it is possible to create images that look similar. But no one has created images that match the chemistry, peculiar superficiality and profoundly mysterious three-dimensional information content of the images on the Shroud. Again, this is all published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
We simply do not have enough reliable information to arrive at a scientifically rigorous conclusion. Years ago, as a skeptic of the Shroud, I came to realize that while I might believe it was a fake, I could not know so from the facts. Now, as someone who believes it is the real burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth, I similarly realize that a leap of faith over unanswered questions is essential.
My name is Dan Porter. Please email me at DanielRobertPorter@gmail.com
Thanks for posting Dan. My daughter is a film major at UGA…I am finally getting a return on my investment. The purpose of the video is to make use of social media. Of course all the standard fare is also produced such as a press release and posters but the world communicates now through Facebook and video. Hopefully those interested will re-post to their own FB pages to invite their friends.
I’m not too far from there. I just might go to it!
Well worth your time. If you haven’t ever heard Russ talk before, he is an excellent speaker. He presents a very well balanced & very informative talk about the Shroud-you’ll be glad you went.