(September 14, 2023 at 11:26 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:(September 14, 2023 at 10:06 pm)ronedee Wrote: What... No scientific rebuttals?
The Shroud of Turin is a proven forgery (along with all other supposed shrouds of Jesus)
Quote:After three separate tests in laboratories in Arizona, Oxford and Zurich, the scientists stated with 95 per cent confidence that the shroud dated from 1260-1390, (a date range which happened to include the first documented references to the cloth).
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...50101.html
No examples of the shroud linen's complex herringbone twill weave date from the first century.
The shroud has no known history prior to the mid-fourteenth century, when it turned up in the possession of a man who never explained how he had obtained the most holy relic in Christendom.
The physique is unnaturally elongated (like figures in Gothic art), and there is a lack of wraparound distortions that would be expected if the cloth had enclosed an actual three-dimensional object like a human body.
The hair hangs as for a standing, rather than reclining figure.
The distinguished microanalyst Walter McCrone identified the "blood" as red ocher and vermilion tempera paint and concluded that the entire image had been painted.
In 1988, the shroud cloth was radiocarbon dated by three different laboratories (at Zurich, Oxford, and the University of Arizona). The results were in close agreement and yield a date range of a.d. 1260-1390, about the time of the reported forger's confession (ca. a.d. 1355).