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Mike Griffith
We have tangible evidence of Christ's resurrection: the Shroud of Turin.
In 2022 researchers in Italy published the results of a study that used the technique of wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) to analyze a small piece of the Shroud. The study concluded that the structural degradations of the Shroud’s linen were “fully compatible” with those of another linen sample that has been dated, according to historical records, to 55–74 AD. Environmental carbon contamination was suggested as the source of the discrepancy between those findings and the results of the carbon dating in the 1980s. The 2022 study’s results bolstered the hypothesis that the Shroud of Turin truly is from the time of Christ (New X-ray Tests Date Turin Shroud to the Time of Jesus | Patterns of Evidence Shroud of Turin | History, Face, Image, Evidence, New Study, & Authenticity | Britannica).
The carbon dating done on the Shroud in 1988 was invalid because it was done on a piece of fabric from a part of the edge of the Shroud that was not part of the original cloth and that was handled repeatedly over the centuries.
The Patterns of Evidence group notes that the Shroud was not, and could not have been, painted, and that only in recent times have scientists found a way to discolor linen strands the way Shroud's linen strands are discolored--and that was by subjecting the linen to microbursts from high-energy lasers:
To this day, after exhaustive scientific study and numerous attempts to duplicate the figure of the man shown on it, no one has been able to do this at the microscopic level of the linen fibers. The image is on the outermost layers of those fibers as discolorations. They are microscopic pixels. The image is not painted, despite the continued claims of people who simply repeat this explanation over and against the verdict of the experts from the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP), and others before and since.
The only traces of paint are from duplicates of the Shroud that were pressed against the Shroud to sanctify the duplicates in earlier centuries. These are tiny flakes of paint. The linen fibers themselves show no trace of brush strokes, binder or pigment. Nothing has soaked in; nothing is present to soak in.
Only in very recent times have scientists found a way to discolor linen strands as they are found in the Shroud of Turin, discolorations penetrating only to a tiny fraction of the width of a human hair. It was done with microbursts from high energy lasers. A burst of high energy! (Evidence for Authenticity of Jesus’ Shroud of Turin | Patterns of Evidence)
Journalist William West began his research believing the Shroud was a forgery and he intended to prove it, but he ended up changing his mind after he examined the evidence, including how the image on the Shroud was made:
So why do so many people think the Shroud is some kind of miracle? Well, apart from the image’s photo-negative features, the Shroud has no traces of any artistic medium – no paint, pigment, ink or dye, but is inexplicably made from a microscopic layer of discoloured linen microfibres, found only on the microscopic surface of the cloth. (This means the image could not have been caused by a fluid or even gas, both of which would have penetrated much deeper into the cloth.) Many scientists have concluded it is an image that could only have been produced by a burst of radiation from the body. (New evidence for the Shroud of Turin casts doubt on the skeptic - Gript)
The pollen found on the Shred is further evidence of its authenticity:
Pollens from 58 species of plants have been found on the Shroud. But only 17 of these, i.e., less than one-third, grow in France or Italy. It was to be expected that pollen from European plants would be found on the Shroud. But in view of the immense variety of European vegetation, the small representation of European species is astonishing. Some of the pollen comes from Israel/Palestine.
The spectrum of non-European species is highly astonishing. It is true that some of these plants grow in many regions of Africa and Western Asia, but only some of them. There is only one place where all these plants—with the exception of three, which need special consideration—grow in a very small radius: Jerusalem. (https://shroud.com/pdfs/ssi10part4.pdf)
The image on the Shroud, though 2D, contains 3D information. Scientists did not know how to put 3D information on 2D images until modern times. The fact that the Shroud contains 3D information was not discovered until the 1970s.
The Shroud image is a negative image. This key fact was discovered by accident in the 1890s. The technology to create a negative image on cloth did not even exist until the 20th century.
Graphics analysis of the Shroud proves the cloth was once wrapped around a human body, which further refutes the claim that the image on the Shroud was painted onto it.
More evidence of the Shroud's authenticity:
An Oxford graduate and former skeptic of the Shroud explains the evidence that changed his mind about the Shroud:
In 2022 researchers in Italy published the results of a study that used the technique of wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) to analyze a small piece of the Shroud. The study concluded that the structural degradations of the Shroud’s linen were “fully compatible” with those of another linen sample that has been dated, according to historical records, to 55–74 AD. Environmental carbon contamination was suggested as the source of the discrepancy between those findings and the results of the carbon dating in the 1980s. The 2022 study’s results bolstered the hypothesis that the Shroud of Turin truly is from the time of Christ (New X-ray Tests Date Turin Shroud to the Time of Jesus | Patterns of Evidence Shroud of Turin | History, Face, Image, Evidence, New Study, & Authenticity | Britannica).
The carbon dating done on the Shroud in 1988 was invalid because it was done on a piece of fabric from a part of the edge of the Shroud that was not part of the original cloth and that was handled repeatedly over the centuries.
The Patterns of Evidence group notes that the Shroud was not, and could not have been, painted, and that only in recent times have scientists found a way to discolor linen strands the way Shroud's linen strands are discolored--and that was by subjecting the linen to microbursts from high-energy lasers:
To this day, after exhaustive scientific study and numerous attempts to duplicate the figure of the man shown on it, no one has been able to do this at the microscopic level of the linen fibers. The image is on the outermost layers of those fibers as discolorations. They are microscopic pixels. The image is not painted, despite the continued claims of people who simply repeat this explanation over and against the verdict of the experts from the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP), and others before and since.
The only traces of paint are from duplicates of the Shroud that were pressed against the Shroud to sanctify the duplicates in earlier centuries. These are tiny flakes of paint. The linen fibers themselves show no trace of brush strokes, binder or pigment. Nothing has soaked in; nothing is present to soak in.
Only in very recent times have scientists found a way to discolor linen strands as they are found in the Shroud of Turin, discolorations penetrating only to a tiny fraction of the width of a human hair. It was done with microbursts from high energy lasers. A burst of high energy! (Evidence for Authenticity of Jesus’ Shroud of Turin | Patterns of Evidence)
Journalist William West began his research believing the Shroud was a forgery and he intended to prove it, but he ended up changing his mind after he examined the evidence, including how the image on the Shroud was made:
So why do so many people think the Shroud is some kind of miracle? Well, apart from the image’s photo-negative features, the Shroud has no traces of any artistic medium – no paint, pigment, ink or dye, but is inexplicably made from a microscopic layer of discoloured linen microfibres, found only on the microscopic surface of the cloth. (This means the image could not have been caused by a fluid or even gas, both of which would have penetrated much deeper into the cloth.) Many scientists have concluded it is an image that could only have been produced by a burst of radiation from the body. (New evidence for the Shroud of Turin casts doubt on the skeptic - Gript)
The pollen found on the Shred is further evidence of its authenticity:
Pollens from 58 species of plants have been found on the Shroud. But only 17 of these, i.e., less than one-third, grow in France or Italy. It was to be expected that pollen from European plants would be found on the Shroud. But in view of the immense variety of European vegetation, the small representation of European species is astonishing. Some of the pollen comes from Israel/Palestine.
The spectrum of non-European species is highly astonishing. It is true that some of these plants grow in many regions of Africa and Western Asia, but only some of them. There is only one place where all these plants—with the exception of three, which need special consideration—grow in a very small radius: Jerusalem. (https://shroud.com/pdfs/ssi10part4.pdf)
The image on the Shroud, though 2D, contains 3D information. Scientists did not know how to put 3D information on 2D images until modern times. The fact that the Shroud contains 3D information was not discovered until the 1970s.
The Shroud image is a negative image. This key fact was discovered by accident in the 1890s. The technology to create a negative image on cloth did not even exist until the 20th century.
Graphics analysis of the Shroud proves the cloth was once wrapped around a human body, which further refutes the claim that the image on the Shroud was painted onto it.
More evidence of the Shroud's authenticity:
An Oxford graduate and former skeptic of the Shroud explains the evidence that changed his mind about the Shroud:
