What do you think the Shroud of Turin is? If it were in a court room, I would say that it would be considered real. If it isn't real, what is it and how did the image get on there?
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Fake
Fake.....
Wrong weave......wrong style ....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236161/First-burial-shroud-carb...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8415377.stm
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/jesus-era-burial-shroud-ca...
"What do you think the Shroud of Turin is? If it were in a court room, I would say that it would be considered real."
Not authentic. No accident that the shroud is first mentioned in the middle ages, first appeared in the middle ages, and was radiometrically dated to the middle ages by 3 separate labs. For your court room analogy, its chain of custody is very bad.
Correct me if I'm wrong, Nyarlathotep, but I don't think radiometry has ever been used to win a case in a criminal courtroom
US v. Lynch
A man was convicting of violating a law preventing the removal of ancient artifacts from federal land. Lynch found and removed the skull. The skull was later radiocarbon dated to be 1400 years old. The facts in the case were not in dispute.
Lynch did win on appeal where he argued it was unreasonable for him to assume the skull was that old.
sounds like a confusing case of a crime of intent, Nyarlathotep
That is exactly what it was; once the skull was carbon dated to 1400 years old, that part of the case is a done deal. The only argument left was that before the carbon dating had been done, it was unreasonable for the defendant to know the skull was that old.
It does establish that courtrooms DO consider radiometric dating to be valid evidence when evaluating the age of an artifact, does it not?
one court.
Where I come from, that is how a legal precedent starts.