[brock_r]

So if the parchment's carbon dating window contains the known date in reality, doesn't it make more sense to throw away the low end of the window?

(Unless of course, you just want to undermine the religion.)

[jessaustin]

You're right. If the range didn't overlap at all, that might be something. It's hard to believe that professional researchers would be this obnoxious, so I somewhat suspect that Discovery has the figures wrong.

[bsaul]

i first read it the way you did, but after second reading i think they meant that fragments were produced over the period, with old fragments in the older date and more recent ones on the more recent one.