Scientist re-creates Turin Shroud to show it's fake

cnn.com ^ | 3:41 p.m. EDT, Wed October 7, 2009 | Richard Allen Greene

[Nikas777]

Scientist re-creates Turin Shroud to show it's fake

updated 3:41 p.m. EDT, Wed October 7, 2009

By Richard Allen Greene CNN

(CNN) -- An Italian scientist says he has reproduced one of the world's most famous Catholic relics, the Shroud of Turin, to support his belief it is a medieval fake, not the cloth Jesus was buried in.

Luigi Garlaschelli created a copy of the shroud by wrapping a specially woven cloth over one of his students, painting it with pigment, baking it in an oven (which he called a "shroud machine") for several hours, then washing it.

His result looks like the cloth that many Christians through the centuries have believed is the actual burial shroud of Jesus, he told CNN.

"What you have now is a very fuzzy, dusty and weak image," he said. "Then for the sake of completeness I have added the bloodstains, the burns, the scorching because there was a fire in 1532."

[grey_whiskers]

Boy, you're posting as much as you can on this.

Trolling for publicity, or is this guy your brother in law /sarc>?

Cheers!

[Nikas777]

I find these subjects fascinating. I really have no dog in any fight and don’t wan’t to have this as a fight but as a discussion. I also know your kidding around so no worries.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Don W]

I’m more amused by the desperate actions of the anti-God folk to PROVE that God doesn’t exist.

If He doesn’t exist, why are they making such a big deal about it? Why can’t they just STFU and leave we believers alone?

Self doubt and insecurity, perhaps?

[Nikas777]

I’m more amused by the desperate actions of the anti-God folk to PROVE that God doesn’t exist.

You get that from the Shroud of Turin controversy?

[Don W]

Whether the Shroud is real or not is (or should be) irrelevant to both the faithful and the secular. What is of import here is the incessant attempt by the secular/anti-God forces to denigrate and deny everything that has to do with the Christian faith.

It’s the constant chipping away at the basic foundations of our society and our faith that I got out of this, and hundreds of articles regarding various relics and icons of primarily Catholic possession.

In a way, I see the secular West doing the exact same thing to the Christian faith as the “palestinians” are doing to Jewish artifacts in the areas of the Holy Land controlled by the muslims.

[Nikas777]

I don’t see how this argument is linked to the Shroud. For example God fearing Protestants do not believe (or should not) in relics and the shroud as a relic would be meaningless to them and the Shroud being debunked would have zero affect on them since they don’t accept such things as the Shroud as objects of veneration in the first place.