What is your opinion on the Shroud of Turin?

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Radiocarbon dating is way way more complicated than popular media ever lets on and you've got to be very cautious when using it in archaeology. (I think it's probably way more useful for fossils but maybe that's just the Murray Gell-Mann effect.)

On the other hand, as @Alliteration says, how does this just suddenly appear out of nowhere? Other relics at least are claimed to have some chain of custody. Like the bones of St. Nicholas in Bari where they can trace back when and where they originally came from.

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I imagine that's the reason the Church doesn't acknowledge it as true

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