Inventory of inventories or what?
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Resurrection NOW, Inc. is pleased to announce the marvelous things we have found concerning the Shroud of Turin:
1. Approximately 400-500 images of Jesus, modeled after the Image of Edessa, that now exist in USB format.
2. Approxomately 50-60 painted copies of the Shroud of Turin, made once the Shroud arrived in France, at around 1360, and painted before the invention of photography.
3. The first photographs of the Shroud of Turin, taken by Italian politician and amateur photographer, Secondo Pia.
4. More photographs of the Shroud of Turin, taken by professional Italian photographer, Giuseppie Enrie.
5. 2,400 high resolution photographs of the Shroud of Turin, including quad mosaics, taken by the documenting photographer of the Shroud of Turin Research Project, or STURP, back in 1978.
6. 2,900+ high resolution photographs of the Shroud of Turin, using various filters, taken by scientific photographer, Vern Miller. These photographs have recently been digitized by Tom D’Muhala, one of the organizers of the STURP project, with financing generously provided by another excellent Shroud researcher, Gilbert Lavoie.
7. 24 peer reviewed scientific papers in American scientific papers, detailing the features of the Shroud of Turin, as discovered by the STURP scientists. Amazingly, these papers are still not available online, even though they were published back in the early 1980′s.
8. The pollen samples removed from the Shroud of Turin, by Dr. Max Frei – are now in the custody of Dr. Alan Whanger, in Durham, North Carolina.
9. We have also located many of the materials of the former Holy Shroud Guild. Some of these materials, are stored in a warehouse, in Three Rivers, Massachusetts. Some of the others are in the custody of Giorgio Bracaglia, who operates the website: www.holyshroudguild.org
There may exist upon micro-fiche in Brooklyn, the 10,000 books of the Wuenschel Collection.
10. The custodians of the Shroud in Turin, also took over 1,800 ultra-high resolution photographs of the Shroud, back in 2008.
11. We also now have high-quality duratrans images of the Sudarium of Oviedo available, as well. plus miles of research upon the Sudarium, as well.
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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.
My name is Dan Porter. Please email me at DanielRobertPorter@gmail.com
USB describes a popular connector used to connect everything from keyboards to phones to computers: Universal Serial Bus. It is not a format of which I am aware.
Pardon my error – when I attended the Shroud Conference at Valencia, Spain, Ian Wilson expained to me that he had between 400-500 digitized images of Images of Jesus modeled after the Image of Edessa – on a USB DRIVE!