NEW 2005 SHROUD OF TURIN BROUHAHA: SCIENCE vs PAPAL CUSTODIAN
Madder Root Dye, Aluminum Oxide and Gum on
the Shroud of Turin
Raymond Rogers, a chemist, was a Fellow of the University of
California, Los Alamos National Laboratory and a charter member of the
Coalition for Excellence in Science Education and one of the
scientists who examined the Shroud in 1978 reexamined threads taken
from the carbon 14 sample area and found clear,
irrefutable evidence of the mending. Along with Anna Arnoldi of
the University of Milan, Rogers published his findings. He had found
madder root dye, aluminum oxide and gum used as mordant to bind the
dye, cotton fibers twisted into repair threads, and spliced threads.
Rogers, using sensitive microchemical
tests on Shroud
fibers, found that vanillin was not present in fibers taken from
the main body of the shroud just as it was not present in the linen
wrappings of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Vanillin disappears with age.
Rogers concluded that the shroud was at least 1300 years old and
possibly older. This was twice the age reported by the carbon 14
dating laboratories. Furthermore, vanillin was found in fibers from
the carbon 14 sample area. There can be no question that the samples
used for carbon 14 dating were invalid.
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