Shroud of Turin

[Diablo]

Wha are your thoughts on this? What caused the negative image? Does it reveal lacerations to the body's wrists, and if it's a 13th century forgery, how would the fabricator have known to place them there? (All artwork from that period that I have come across depict crucifixion with nails in the palms). Just curious about your thoughts and if there are good sources you can pass along for further info. Scientists who have studied it, appear to me, to be genuinely divided as to the date and cause of its origins.

Also, I've heard that the Church claims further tests threaten to irrevocably damage the Shroud... convenient and suspicious enough, I'd say.

As far as the wrists/hands thing is concerned, I recall when I was at school that our RI teacher told us that the nails had to be inserted in the wrists because the palms of the hands would not bear a man's weight.

This is the sort of charming stuff that young kids just love to hear, along with a detailed description of scourging. I do wonder about that teacher....