Searching the Blog
There are two ways to search for content in the blog. One is to use a search engine such as Google or Bing The other is to use the blogs own search facility. The results are formatted differently.
1) For Google or Bing type in “site:shroudofturin.wordpress.com” followed by a search argument just as you would for the web in general. This search includes the posting and any comments. For instance, you could find all the comments by “daveb of wellington” by using the phrase as part of the search argument. Here is a Bing example:
Note: use site:shroudofturin.wordpress.com rather than site:shroudblog.com, which won’t work.
2) To use the blog’s own search facility, just type in a search word or phrase just above the RSS feed icon on the right side of the screen. Instead of a list, you will get something that looks like the blog’s Home Page with several postings which you can scroll through.
The blog’s own search does not search through comments.
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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
Or one could use our expanded search capability http://shroudnm.com/search.html. This gives the user a choice of a variety of Shroud sites. The person just selects the radio button to the left of the site they want to search, enter the search criteria and click search (or press enter). Using this will provide a search of only the site you selected since there are many sites that do not have search capabilities and permits you to limit results to see what each site has for what you are looking.