Valiant just read what you write some times, and look in the mirror. You would never speak to someone face to face the way you do.
Ditto
I know to you this is all a sport in which no holds are barred, but when you disappear from truth it makes nonsense of all you say. It reflects badly on you and nobody else.
It is no sport. It is a battle against heresy and an heretical sect which claims to be Christian and at heart is NOT.
I know exactly how research works, and better than you.
So you have done research in all major universities? I don't think so!!!!
I was a postgrad researcher , doing hush hush military stuff, cold hard logic in advanced maths and physicas.
Of course LOL I should have realised that you were one of the UK's leading scientists. Silly me LOL Modern physics is not logic, it is surmise. You really don't know what logic is do you?
I saw the clear problems in how the scientific process functions, and the reasons why it does not function properly.
The academic world awaited the rise of Mikeuk LOL. Now it can rest easy.
The "old boys" club is a part of the problem, the sheer bloody mindedness on the part of the elder statesmen professors who saw their pet theories challenged, and were the peers reviewing the challengers, which is the greatest obstacle to progress as is the "filing cabinet effect" which allows all sorts of errors through. Things you know nothing about.
Of course London University was totally in the dark about such misbehaviour. Especially in the field of theology. Why didn't I realise that? Now pull the other one.
As is the fact that there is neither grant funding for repeated science,
Perfectly reasonably grant funding is for new advances.
nor will any journal publish repeats so the often stated falsehood of the old boys club will believe it "if it is repeated in a peer reviewed journal" is a way of preventing it being accepted and so on.
Did they turn your research down? LOL
And so on and so forth.
But you have an attitude problem.
Seems to me that the one who has the attitude problem is YOU.
You discount all before even researching it superimposing the "valiant" view on what is really there. Provable.
No I examine the evidence and who obtained it and presented it. Then I make my decision. Its the scientific method.
The shroud is a good example. Take the evidence for authenticity of the shroud is overwhelming.
if it was overwhelming it would be accepted.
The evidence for faking is NONE.
Apart from carbon dating. which dates it over 1000 years later
And despite all our technology now, nobody can reproduce the mark, nor say how it was produced, although UV lasers are getting similar marks.
So we don't know how it happened.? What difference does that make if it happened 1000 years too late?
So who lent one to the faker? So it cannot be faked. It is not a painting or artwork. It is not a photograph. Both provably discountable.
But it is not that that is in question.
You damn the researchers before even knowin who they are: atheists, even Jewish, who had a vested interest in disproving it not proving it.
One problem with that theory is that the Roman Catholic church has the shroud and could select who performed work on it. Yet they still reached the same conclusion.
They were Jet propulsion Laboratory and Los Alamos scientists of the highest reputation. As Barry Shwartz has remarked since "we expected to examine it, see the brush marks, then go home. Yet now, four decades on we still cannot say what it is, we can only tell you what it is not. It is not a painting, a print or a photograph"
that is not the question . The question is its date. All the Roman Catholic church has to do is put a part of the shroud in the hands of independent experts including genuine Christians. Why is it afraid to do that?
as those surviving will tell you, the vatican representatives were present but had no influence!
So?
The ones who behave completely unprofessionally were the daters, and were proven so, when it turns out they dated a later repaired sample, but they did not even check the textile to know it was different from the rest.
The Roman Catholic church gave the sample to be examined. You mean they messed up?
And instead of taking multiple, they took one and chopped it up.
The Roman Catholic church were reluctant to give a sample in the first place. So don't blame the scientists. This is afterthought.
Any credible scientist would be looking to work out why the date they took disagreed with all the other science, not them, they did not even look it.
But it did not disagree with all the other SCIENCE. It disagreed with your opinion.
For you to remark either on the integrity of the science or those who performed it, without even knowing who they are or what they did, proves just how shallow you are.
Look it makes no difference to me whether the shroud is genuine or not. So why should I take up sides? I simply consider the scientific evidence. But there are so many fakes in the Roman Catholic church that the weight is against them from the start. If it was genuine it could have been proved. You give the impression that the poor Roman Catholic church is helpless and without resources.