Russ writes:
Here is another one I taped for Monday’s online update for Prophecy in the News:
These were both taped for their website and Youtube channel. Coming up in a couple weeks will be two 27 minute shows that will air primarily on the Church Channel. They will also be on their website and Youtube channel.
I will be speaking again at their conference in Colorado Springs planned for July 25-27. I will be delivering two talks: "Unholy Obsession–Hitler’s Quest to Steal the Shroud" and the second talk is called "The Shroud of Turin—God is in the Details". This presentation will cover many of the very nuanced details regarding the blood, physiology, image, art history, and historical clues that all suggest a medieval origin is untenable.
In his interview, Russ said again (it’s not the first time I hear him say this) that if the Shroud is not the authentic shroud of Jesus, it must be the work of an artist. In the light of the STURP team analysis of the relic, I believe this kind of thinking is completely off-track and misleading for the public who don’t know much about the scientific aspect of the Shroud.
Russ, may I suggest (again) that you do a good reading of this paper of mine about the bloodstains evidence : http://www.shroud.com/pdfs/n76part5.pdf
Be particularly careful concerning the 4 possible scenarios that I describe in pages 6 to 8 of my paper. In the light of all the data we got from STURP (and from other scientist inquiries like the one done by Barbet, Zugibe, Lavoie, Baima Bollone, etc.), I firmly believe these 4 scenarios are the only ones that can have any chance to be correct versus the Shroud and, sadly for your vision, the idea of an artistic forgery is not present in these 4 scenarios…
In future interviews, I wish you could mention these 4 possible scenarios when you talk about the question of the authenticity of the relic, instead of still leaving the door open to an artistic forgery, which has already been set aside by science. Hope you will consider this friendly advice seriously in order to be more accurate versus the scientific knowledge we have today about what the Shroud can be and what the Shroud cannot be… Beside that, keep on your nice work!