From: "Mervyn Lobo" <mervynal...@yahoo.ca> <<Fr.Ivo wrote:
**This is totally wrong. All factors converge to that conclusion and show that their conclusion is correct. It is AB group. It has 23 chromosomes, what could happen only in the case of Jesus, who was conceived virginally by his Mother, Virgin Mary. It is a scientific confirmation. We should remark that in 1978, a group of scientists from NASA performed an intensive examination on the Shroud of Turin, by using all the sophisticated scientific equipment available to our Space Agency at that time. Among the many findings, the scientists made in support of the authenticity of the Shroud, a very significant discovery was found regarding the blood type on the Shroud. It was AB positive, the same blood type as found in the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fr.Ivo,Perhaps you are not aware of this but science has confirmed that the Shroudof Turin is material manufactured some time between 1260 and 1390 AD.**Dear Mervyn,I am sorry to say that you are not aware of the research going on to studythe mysterious Shroud of Turin.As part of my specialization in biblicalexegesis, I wrote an article on the Shroud of Turin as "The Fifth Gospel" in1987. In that study I revised all the tests that were militating in favourof the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin as the burial cloth of Jesus ofNazareth. In that direction I analysed the details given about the death andcrucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth in the light of the Gospels. Dr.PierreBarbet was a good guide for this study. I expected that the Carbon-14 testwould confirm it. But, though Carbon-14 test was negative for an earlierdate, I was expecting new tests that would confirm it. Already at that time,sc ientists were saying that the tests were not conclusive because of thepiece of cloth examined, which was different from the main body cloth. Thatwas coming from a repair in the medieval time. Later studies by RaymondRogers (1957-2006), a chemist from Los Alamos National Laboratory, confirmedthat the cloth is much older. The Carbon-14 test is, therefore, notconclusive, though it was correct in dating the piece of cloth to 1250-1390.It has taken a piece which was later invisibly woven together (Frenchweaving) with the main cloth.You may not know that Los Alamos Laboratory hasconducted tests and come to the conclusion that the Carbon-14 test was notvalid.> I think you will agree with me that Jesus did not die during this period.**I only am amazed at your crass ignorance, as well as at the ignorance ofthe great neuroscientist, who can pontificate on every matter, without afoundation, and try to teach the "scientifically illiterate"... This is verychildish, either you are like ch ildren who do not grow or you are treatingother Goanetters as children... After all, we are not so stupid... I do notknow what is your intellectual standard. If it had been scientificallyproved that the Shroud is an artifact "manufactured" by a skilled painter inthe medieval times, between 1260 and 1390, I would not continue to say thatit is dating from the first century and coming from Palestine, as so manytests are confirming. Read the article The Biggest Carbon 14 Dating Mistake.That is the reason why I think that it tallies with the Gospel data andaccounts. It is, at least an indirect, confirmation of the Resurrection ofJesus. Regarding AB group of blood and 23 chromosomes, it is a fact attestedby scientific research. The inference is that this phenomenon is exceptionalin the virginal conception of Jesus of Nazareth. Otherwise, we have toinfer that the scientists are wrong in their evidence, theologians are wrongin their inference, only Santosh is right in saying t hat all are wrong...Regards.Fr.Ivo
