|
|
|
|
|
The images reveal chilling and horrific pathological detail. Forensic experts tell us that the body images show explicit and medically
realistic details of piercing wounds, lacerations, bruises, contusions, and
abrasions are medically accurate. The man’s once-outstretched arms are modestly folded at the wrists. It is on
the images of the arms that we see rivulets of blood. It is on the man’s chest,
between the fifth and sixth ribs that we see an elliptical gash from which the
blood flowed under the man’s lower back. We see the horrific wounds where the
man was nailed to the cross. So accurate are the details, medical experts
realize they demonstrate a knowledge of pathology that was not understood in the
Middle Ages; not by artists, not by crafters of fake relics, and not by the best
medical minds of that age. How did this relic forger translate such
medically-accurate detail, in both the front and back images, onto the long
piece of linen cloth? |
The
scientific study of the Turin shroud is like a microcosm of the
scientific search for God: it does more to inflame any debate than
settle it.”
It is
simply not known how the ghostly image of a serene, bearded man was
made.”
Scientist-Journalist Philip Ball Nature, that most prestigious of scientific journals, that once had bragging rights to claim that the Shroud was fake, responding to new, peer-reviewed studies that discredit the carbon 14 dating and show that the Shroud could be authentic. WHAT WE KNOW IN 2005
|