More speculative and cynical insinuations of a conspiracy. The Catholic Church does not declare an event a miracle on a whim. Had there been any evidence of embalming, which was unheard of at the time, it would not have been declared a miracle. Anyone who has seen the corpse od St. FX would know that there is no sign of mummification. > --- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is no real physical evidence that the SFX > remains were not embalmed or mummified. The only > expert testimony from the two physicians was written > two and a half years after the physical examination. > This after-the-fact record is not acceptable as > expert > forensic evidence. > > Whether the body was embalmed or not can be easily > ascertained today if the Catholic Church allows it > to > be subjected to modern forensic chemical analysis. I > suspect this is not likely to happen. > > So the extraordinary supernatural explanation does > not > have even the bare minimum forensic evidence in > support of it, let alone the extraordinary physical > evidence required in such a case. > > There are numerous natural, semi-natural and > artificial mummies in Japan, Korea, China and other > parts of Asia. So this is nothing unusual from an > objective scientific standpoint. > > Cheers, > > Santosh > >