Is the Shroud a ‘radiation photo’ of the resurrection? Some think so.
Jerome Corsi, author of The Shroud Codex, is reporting in World Net Daily:
Scientists are building the case that the image of a crucified man on the Shroud of Turin was created by radiation that emanated from the body itself, a theory remarkably supportive of the traditional resurrection account that is central to Christian theology.
A scientific paper co-authored by attorney and historian Mark Antonacci and physicist Arthur Lind argues that the image of the crucified man in Shroud of Turin might constitute what amounts to a photograph taken at the instant Jesus’ body transformed as he rose from the dead.
In the paper, "Particle Radiation from the Body," Antonacci’s and Lind’s argument centers around the 29 unique or unusual features that scientists over the past four decades have found on the Shroud’s body image and fiber.
Keep in mind that some serious scientists who think the Shroud may be authentic have had some real concerns about whether or not the image could have been formed by radiation. Keeping that in mind, read the full article: Shroud a ‘radiation photo’ of resurrection?
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Is the Shroud real? Probably.
The Shroud of Turin may be the real burial cloth of Jesus. The carbon dating, once seemingly proving it was a medieval fake, is now widely thought of as suspect and meaningless. Even the famous Atheist Richard Dawkins admits it is controversial. Christopher Ramsey, the director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Laboratory, thinks more testing is needed. So do many other scientists and archeologists. This is because there are significant scientific and non-religious reasons to doubt the validity of the tests. Chemical analysis, all nicely peer-reviewed in scientific journals and subsequently confirmed by numerous chemists, shows that samples tested are chemically unlike the whole cloth. It was probably a mixture of older threads and newer threads woven into the cloth as part of a medieval repair. Recent robust statistical studies add weight to this theory. Philip Ball, the former physical science editor for Nature when the carbon dating results were published, recently wrote: “It’s fair to say that, despite the seemingly definitive tests in 1988, the status of the Shroud of Turin is murkier than ever.” If we wish to be scientific we must admit we do not know how old the cloth is. But if the newer thread is about half of what was tested – and some evidence suggests that – it is possible that the cloth is from the time of Christ.
No one has a good idea how front and back images of a crucified man came to be on the cloth. Yes, it is possible to create images that look similar. But no one has created images that match the chemistry, peculiar superficiality and profoundly mysterious three-dimensional information content of the images on the Shroud. Again, this is all published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
We simply do not have enough reliable information to arrive at a scientifically rigorous conclusion. Years ago, as a skeptic of the Shroud, I came to realize that while I might believe it was a fake, I could not know so from the facts. Now, as someone who believes it is the real burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth, I similarly realize that a leap of faith over unanswered questions is essential.
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I am not a specialist in radiation but I discern a huge gap between some scientists.
According to Fazio “any hypothesis of the Shroud body image formation by radiation must be rejected” (Fazio et alii, The interaction between radiation and the Linen of Turin, Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids, Volume 165, Issue 5 May 2010 , pages 337 – 342, http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713648881).
According to others, “deep UV radiation simulates the Turin Shroud image” (Lazzaro et alii, Journal of Imaging Science and Technology — July/August 2010 — Volume 54, Issue 4, pp. 040302-(6) ).
That is to say that the Turin Shroud is not crystal clear…
Good point. I agree.
This also implies in total disintegration of Jesus’body converted it into pure energy, being rebuilt outside of the cloth, as the current theory of teletransportation states