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Carbon dating assumes a constant rate of carbon in all living creatures, that is a constant C factor. That is all animals eat plants, plants have carbon from atmosphere. What about an all meat eater? How will they have as much carbon as a vegitarian? It is not the same, yet carbon dating assumes a constant here. So carbon dating is the more objective of dating methods, however it's not solid evidence. Even if it was, we are not given access to the original peer review of the carbon dating of this find. We don't know where the sample was taken. If it was me, touching a 2000 year old cloth, I would do the patchwork myself, I would not want to destroy the original. But in doing so you are dating when the patch was done not the original. I hope you can see the logic in this. Almost all forgery allegations are based on the one carbon dating.
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