Apart from Miranda, one of the highlights of recent television viewing was the programme on the Turin Shroud. I imagine most of us recall the ernest scientists who lined up a few years back to solemnly tell us that it was medieval. We who have faith somehow clung on remembering that faith is a matter of walking not seeing.

Now it turns out that these scientists managed to spectacularly screw up their carbon dating by carefully selecting a piece of cloth that had been repaired in the middle ages. Ray Rogers one of the original scientists set out to debunk what he saw as 'lunatic fringe' claims that the carbon dating was flawed, and ended up by saying that he was 'coming to the conclusion that it has a very good chance of being the piece of cloth used to bury the historic Jesus. The story is well told on www.shroudstory.com , and worth a read.

The moral is that you can't believe all that the scientists tell you, which is worrying when we consider the issue of global warming. They are so keen to get us to believe them (and give them lots of money to carry on their research)  that any evidence to the contrary is played down or at worst suppressed.

I wish you peace and joy in 2010. Carry the words found in Matthew 11.28-30 with you always.