A couple of things regarding the shroud; I remember seeing an interview with an Italian scientist who said he had studied the blood on the shroud and found that it contained only the mother's contribution. I don't remember the scientific terminology, but somehow, the father's DNA contribution was missing. Mysterious.
Except in a Virgin birth scenario. I have tried numerous times to find that interview (which was from the 80s or 90s I think) but it seems to have been scrubbed from the internet. If anyone has it, please post it.
Secondly, I remember learning years after the 80s study of the shroud that it 'just so happened' that they took their sample for dating from a patch that had been done to a corner of the fabric by a nun sometime around the 700s. So they dated the repair, the much newer cloth, rather than the actual, original shroud. Absurd.
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A couple of things regarding the shroud; I remember seeing an interview with an Italian scientist who said he had studied the blood on the shroud and found that it contained only the mother's contribution. I don't remember the scientific terminology, but somehow, the father's DNA contribution was missing. Mysterious. Except in a Virgin birth scenario. I have tried numerous times to find that interview (which was from the 80s or 90s I think) but it seems to have been scrubbed from the internet. If anyone has it, please post it.
Secondly, I remember learning years after the 80s study of the shroud that it 'just so happened' that they took their sample for dating from a patch that had been done to a corner of the fabric by a nun sometime around the 700s. So they dated the repair, the much newer cloth, rather than the actual, original shroud. Absurd.