Saint Peter's Bones

[Jenny A]

I don't know enough about St. Peter's bones to opine.  But anyone who bothers to look at the proportions of the body depicted on the shroud of Turin knows it's a fake.  No real person has those proportions, but art made at the time it first surfaced did.  Surely if Jesus were monstrously out of proportion to the extent of being a freak of nature, someone would have mentioned it?  It's not even as if it's a genetic defect commonly found or recognized it's not.  No one has those proportions.  It's as if the shroud first came to light ten or fifteen years ago in Japan and had the huge eyes and bodily proportions of anime cartoons.

Oh---- Welcome back Randy.

One other question:

How is it that the intensity of the image on the shroud translates into a near-perfect 3D image of a man?

It wasn't until a few years ago that we had the technology to recognize and capture that image...how did an artist capture that data on a linen cloth with an image that is no more than a micron or two deep in the fibers?

Either this cloth is the real deal OR it is the most amazing icon ever created.

And what would prevent a forger from using a statue covered in pigment?  I'd suggest a real body except that that face is clearly not that of any real human.

How do you connect it to Jesus as opposed to any old body?