Shelfari has a guest posting by Jon Jefferson, “the writer behind the New York Times bestselling Jefferson Bass "body farm" novels, for which Jefferson has partnered with forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Bass. Jefferson is a veteran journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. His writings have been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, and Popular Science, and broadcast on National Public Radio.” Discussing The Inquisitor’s Key:
One of the favorite assertions of the believers is that only a miracle could have created the ghostly, lifelike image; there’s no known technique, they say, by which human hands"”especially medieval hands"”could have created it. But at least two reputable researchers, professional skeptic Joe Nickell and forensic anthropologist Emily Craig, have shown that a medieval artist could easily have created the image, using red ochre pigment applied with a dust-transfer technique, like the one employed to make brass rubbings from tombstones.
Source: Shelfari: The Inquisitor’s Key: The Shroud of Turin and the Ultimate Game of "What if?"
Reputable researchers…..LMAO.
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LMAO? “Like My Auntie Olga??” So Jefferson writes an absoutely preposterous novel, and writes up his own critique, and then expects to be taken seriously when he pontificates on his shallow assessment of the Shroud? “… easily created image??” I don’t think so. We’re still waiting for one these know-all sceptics to create a credible fascimile! Presumably for this dust-transfer technique, the artist/craftsman would have created a full-scale 3D sculpture or bas-relief first. We’ve been over this before in Bodland. It didn’t take there either! Oh, And have the McCronies not yet woken up to the fact that the only red ochre is in their highly imaginative brain cells.
The besetting tragic flaw of even successful novelists is an inability to distinguish fantasy and reality!
A comment which neatly portrays the mindset of those who believe the shroud to be anything other than a fake.
Its interesting how shroud worshippers were all in favour of the carbon dating, right up to the point where it proved, (what any rational person already knew) that the fabric is of course just one of many, many, many medieval fakes, made for the enormous and very profitable “relic trade”.