Clarification on the much anticipated documentary, The Night of the Shroud
Francesca Saracino, the director of the documentary "The Night of the Shroud," writes:
I am writing because I read some news that you’ve brought into your blog.
I want to do a bit of clarity.
This documentary is very strong for its content (Barrie Schwortz has seen a preview here in Italy) and we are looking [for/at] a most appropriate channel that broadcast it in Italy and in the rest of the world.
There is no mystery.
We’re just looking for the best way to give more international exposure for a documentary that will change many things on the issue of Carbon 14 test on the Shroud. But it takes time to do this.
Instead for the website, we are doing some updates and for this reason many pages are not available. The documentary will be available on DVD only after the broadcast.
I would be very grateful (also the production asked me to tell you) if you can make these adjustments in your blog. Thanks so much.
This is what I had posted: It would be great if we knew how to order the documentary.
And here is a link to a trailer/interview about the documentary: Video Posted by Rome Reports: Questions Carbon Dating of the Shroud of Turin.
We will wait.
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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
This should be a very interesting and controversial video. I wonder what networks here in North America will cover this? I don’t put much faith in some of them too…(cough) Discovery channel (cough).
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Wow, that looks fabulous. I cannot wait to order a copy. Thanks so much for the blog, Dan.
Francesca, when the time comes for you to show the Night of the Shroud in New York City,
I can make available for you life size replica images of the Shroud of Turin, whether for TV interviews you may do and/or for any promotional reasons connected to your film.
http://www.nyshroud.com