Are you thinking that modern technology can create effects that are not inherent in the original object?
Example; the 3D effects digitalized from the shroud?
Wouldn’t this be a set back to the study of archeology ? how can we trust evidence if the methods of modern technology create phantoms or simulacra or reality?
And if not the evidence, are we not sliding into postulating an absurdity?
oops meant “of” reality.
It’s possible we could modernly reverse engineer such a thing, but it leaves the puzzle of how it could ever be done without the computer, the laser, the hologram, in a way that wouldn’t even be evident until the modern tools appeared to make it possible to analyze the image.
The image looks vaguely drawing-like to me, but there are reasonable explanations. I’m willing to chalk it up to spirit work.
[I’m willing to chalk it up to spirit work.]
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but again I wouldn’t reverence the Shroud on account of it either. I would give glory to God who performed such a work as one of the relatively minor evidences of the work of Christ.
The dispute concerns the person whom the corpse used to make the imprints belonged to, and the age of the cloth. I don’t think anyone serious can postulate that the entire imagery is a handmade fake. When a corpse is used, 3D stereoscopic features are bound to be preserved. No magic here.
WiKi has a great amount of detail in its article on it, with cited references:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_14_dating_of_the_Shroud_of_Turin