A piece of the femur, believed to be of St James the Younger, mounted on a wooden peg and with a gilded ring. [Kaare Lund Rasmussen/SDU]
Posted on 03/04/2021 7:23:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv
In Rome lies the Santi Apostoli church, cared for by Franciscan brothers for more than 500 years. For more than 1500 years, this site has held the believed remains of two of the earliest Christians and Jesu apostles: St. Philip and St. James the Younger - relics of the Holy Catholic Church... The skeletons are today far from complete. Only fragments of a tibia, a femur and a mummified foot remain. The tibia and foot are attributed to St. Philip, the femur to St. James. It appears likely that this has been the case since the sixth century... The researchers considered the remains of St. Philip too difficult to de-contaminate and radiocarbon date, and their age thus remains unknown so far. But the femur, believed to belong to St. James, underwent several analyses. Most importantly, it was radiocarbon dated to AD 214-340. Thus, the preserved relic, the femur, is not that of St. James. It originates from an individual some 160-240 years younger than St. James... [The researchers] consider it very likely, that whoever moved this femur to the Santi Apostoli church, believed it belonged to St. James. They must have taken it from a Christian grave, so it belonged to one of the early Christians, apostle or not, comments Professor Kaare Lund Rasmussen.
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A piece of the femur, believed to be of St James the Younger, mounted on a wooden peg and with a gilded ring. [Kaare Lund Rasmussen/SDU]
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carbon dating is not that accurate. You cannot with certainty say something is 2000 years old and not 1900 years old. Its just not that accurate.
The reason they gave a range of age is because of the margin of error for something that old. IOW, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
They gave a range slightly more than a hundred years. That is not the accuracy of carbon dating. Carbon dating is farely accurate in groups of 5000. It is half as accurate at 2500. By the time you get down to 200 years, you are not accurate at all.
“groups of 5000”, whatever that is. The accuracy is clearly laid out in the article, and doesn’t differ at all from what I said. Clearly you’ve got some axe to grind, but again, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
here is one of hundreds of pages that explain the limitations of carbon dating. You can’t carbon date which century someone died.
Wrong. The margin of error changes with the age, so the margin of error for this bone sample was shown, and it precludes being old enough to be that of one of the Apostles. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
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