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Ray Rogers: In His Own
Words DVD Ray gave this interview to capture on record his findings as he knew his illness was getting progressively worse. |
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The Shroud of Turin - Ray Rogers' Recent Paper On January 20th 2005 Raymond N Rogers had an article published in the chemistry journal "Thermochimica Acta", Volume 425, Issues 1-2, pages 189 - 194. The paper was titled "Studies on the radiocarbon sample from the shroud of Turin". In the abstract for the paper Roger made the bold statement: "The radiocarbon sampling area was uniquely covered with a yellow-brown plant gum containing dye lakes. Prolysis-mass-spectrometry results from the sample area couple with microscopic and microchemical observations prove that the radiocarbon sample was not part of the original cloth of the Shroud of Turin. The radiocarbon date was thus not valid for determining the age of the shroud." Rogers' findings extend further than simply declaring the sample taken for the C14 tests to not be from the actual cloth. In the process of carrying out his chemical analysis, in particular the analysis of the amount of vanillin lost from the lignin on the shroud, he was able to estimate that the Shroud of Turin was most likely between 1300 and 3000 years old, much older than the C14 tests suggested (click here for more details). In a recent TV documentary Barrie Schwortz noted: "Amazingly when we look at the UV florescence photography of that area; the area where the samples were taken is dramatically different to the rest of the Shroud of Turin." Intro | Carbon Dating | DNA | Oviedo Cloth | Survival | Rogers |
| Ray Rogers [1927-2005] |
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