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Scientists say Turin Shroud is Supernatural!
DaltheJigsaw
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Italian government scientists have claimed to have discovered evidence that a supernatural event formed the image on the Turin Shroud, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.
After years of work trying to replicate the colouring on the shroud, a similar image has been created by the scientists.
However, they only managed the effect by scorching equivalent linen material with high-intensity ultra violet lasers, undermining the arguments of other research, they say, which claims the Turin Shroud is a medieval hoax.
Such technology, say researchers from the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (Enea), was far beyond the capability of medieval forgers, whom most experts have credited with making the famous relic.
"The results show that a short and intense burst of UV directional radiation can colour a linen cloth so as to reproduce many of the peculiar characteristics of the body image on the Shroud of Turin," they said.
And in case there was any doubt about the preternatural degree of energy needed to make such distinct marks, the Enea report spells it out: "This degree of power cannot be reproduced by any normal UV source built to date."
A statement by lead researcher, Dr Paolo Di Lazzaro, said: "If our results prompt a philosophical or theological debate, these conclusions we'll leave to the experts; to each person's own conscience," he said.
Luigi Garlaschelli, a professor of chemistry at Pavia University, told The Independent: "The implications are... that the image was formed by a burst of UV energy so intense it could only have been supernatural. But I don't think they've done anything of the sort."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-say-turin-shroud-is-supernatural-6279512.html
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Full_length_negatives_of_the_shroud_of_Turin.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Shroud_positive_negative_compare.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_of_Turin
After years of work trying to replicate the colouring on the shroud, a similar image has been created by the scientists.
However, they only managed the effect by scorching equivalent linen material with high-intensity ultra violet lasers, undermining the arguments of other research, they say, which claims the Turin Shroud is a medieval hoax.
Such technology, say researchers from the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (Enea), was far beyond the capability of medieval forgers, whom most experts have credited with making the famous relic.
"The results show that a short and intense burst of UV directional radiation can colour a linen cloth so as to reproduce many of the peculiar characteristics of the body image on the Shroud of Turin," they said.
And in case there was any doubt about the preternatural degree of energy needed to make such distinct marks, the Enea report spells it out: "This degree of power cannot be reproduced by any normal UV source built to date."
A statement by lead researcher, Dr Paolo Di Lazzaro, said: "If our results prompt a philosophical or theological debate, these conclusions we'll leave to the experts; to each person's own conscience," he said.
Luigi Garlaschelli, a professor of chemistry at Pavia University, told The Independent: "The implications are... that the image was formed by a burst of UV energy so intense it could only have been supernatural. But I don't think they've done anything of the sort."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-say-turin-shroud-is-supernatural-6279512.html
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Full_length_negatives_of_the_shroud_of_Turin.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Shroud_positive_negative_compare.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_of_Turin
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We can delete this then!:0 I wonder why I didn't see it. Probably not being mindful!
http://newbuddhist.com/discussion/13506/the-turin-shroud-could-not-have-been-faked-say-scientists#Item_11
At this point, I would say with the scientific skills available to us currently, there should be no problem verifying precise facts about the shroud.
In fact I would be willing to bet a pound to a pack of unused hosts, that scientists already know precisely all they need to know about it.
But publication of data would blow the entire Christian faith, potentially open wide to complete question - not to say, in need of complete re-writing at best or expose it as an elaborate, centuries-old fabrication at worst...