Dan Porter's Shroudstory blog as an interesting posting about an Australian science writer who lumps the Shroud of Turin in with such myths as the "tooth fairy."
"Do you hold any really odd beliefs—in ghosts, UFOs, tooth fairies, the sanctity of the Turin Shroud? While science often acts as a bulls**t filter, the internet rarely does." http://shroudstory.com/2013/06/13/argumentum-ad-populum-of-the-day/
There is a serious problem here. The issue is
"marginalization." How the proponents of established
"truth" use their establishment position to push dissent to the
margins and unacceptability. More than once in history, proponents of seemingly
fanciful scientific ideas are marginalized by established authority scientific,
or otherwise. Remember, Galileo came with an inch of the stake - until he
recanted the truth.
Einstein's relativity
was mocked until it was proven. But some ideas simply evade traditional
standards of proof. By the skeptics standard the Resurrection will always be
wrong because it can't be repeated - at least by scientific methods.
When it comes to
the Shroud, by dismissively pushing adherents of its authenticity to the
margins, the issue of the Resurrection is avoided. It was something that was
noted about the Shroud in the initial debate after the Pia's photographs
unlocked its mysteries. Were it the Shroud of Caesar or Aristotle it would have
been universally hailed. But it was the Shroud of that annoying man, Jesus
Christ and an authentic Shroud of JC, just isn't de rigueur.
And by the
way, Lee Harvey Oswald, all around goof-off (who just happened to speak and write fluent Russian) wasn’t a lone gunman. But that’s another debate. See http://www.johnklotz.com/new-jfk.htm
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