New evidence indicates Turin Shroud not a European forgery
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https://catholicherald.co.uk/new-evidence-indicates-turin-shroud-not-a-european-forgery/
Scientific controversy continues to rage.
New scientific tests conducted on the famous Shroud of Turin have revealed that the flax used to make the linen was grown in the Middle East.
...debunking claims it was grown in Europe.
Another area of dispute is the shroud's age: Carbon datings of a "recent" age (like 800 or 1200 years) are claimed to be taken from "repaired" sections of the Shroud - its edges had been damaged in a medieval fire, nuns repaired them - while datings from more "original" areas get eerily close to 2000 years.
You can still dispute what this thing is. Or how it got imprinted, with what / whose face, what state they were in really, etc. Go for it.
But you can't dispute that, whatever it is, it needs further explanation & study. Because $1m prize not yet claimed:
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(If anyone doesn't know)
"The Shroud of Turin or Turin Shroud is a length of linen cloth bearing the image of a man who appears to have suffered physical trauma in a manner consistent with crucifixion. There is no consensus yet on exactly how the image was created."Except that is understated.
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"consistent with crucifixion" - of Jesus Christ as described in Christian Testament: particular wounds etc.
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image has weird photographic-holographic properties that can hardly be created even today; consistent with a short, massive burst of radiation that somehow dissolves a human body.
Again - feel free to argue what you think it is - if it's a forgery, ok then how?? I've heard people claim it was Space Alien transporter beam.
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Even back then, it was not hard to get fabric like that and people were more educated than we give them credit for. There was a lot of science being done that the church made illegal.
It's obvious that the nails had to go through the wrists and ankles, not the hands and feet. Blood flows down on a person who is upright.
One thing I noticed is the missing leg breaks that the Romans did.
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@raphjd Aren't we talking about medieval times? Dark Ages? Roman times when they thought earth, air, fire & water were chemical elements?
You figure maybe they had beyond-3D imaging technology, that Church suppressed & we today still can't explain?
Again: dispute who it is all you want - but explain how it got there, at some point.
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I wasn't arguing how it was done, but rather just the points I brought up. We tend to believe people back then were too stupid to do things
Also, the shroud was originally written about around 800 AD, then disappeared until around 1400 AD. We have no idea if the original and the later one are the same.
If memory serves me right, there are 37 Jesus' foreskins in various churches. Some nun Saint has at least 12 fingers floating around. Forgeries are known to exist.
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@raphjd Mostly side issues.
The leg break question is interesting - I'm sure it's been accounted for - I'll have to look up how.
Forging (if that's right word) some foreskin or finger, is of course very easy (if that's right word).