Italian chemist Luigi Garlaschelli and his team used the same type of linen. First they aged the cloth with heat, using a normal oven, and washing it with water. The shroud was placed over a student covered in red ochre, using a mask that simulated Jesus’ alleged physiognomy. They kept aging and washing the shroud, adding the necessary blood stains in the process.
This easy to do, inexpensive one-week process resulted in exactly the same look as the Shroud of Turin, which has been repeatedly proven to be a fake made around the 14th Century using different dating techniques.
Would this convince the believers? Garlaschelli says he doubt it:
Many still believe that the shroud has unexplainable characteristics that cannot be reproduced by human means. But the result obtained clearly indicates that this could be done with the use of inexpensive materials and with a quite simple procedure.
If they don’t want to believe carbon dating done by some of the world’s best laboratories they certainly won’t believe me.
Indeed Luigi, indeed. These people won’t take scientific proof that the relic is fake because they just like to do tue Mulder and want to believe. Now, go back to kill Koopa Troopas and Goombas after killing God yet one more time. I’m going to pull a Nietzsche and find myself a linen cloth to try. [BBC and Daily Mail]
Dan
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 7:06 AMThe Italian group think that they may have been able to recreate the Shroud of Turin. Maybe they have? But, I’d love for them to try and recreate the coffee stained image of the Virgin Mary I personally have. A few photos of the image can be found here on Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/7690119@N03/sets/72157617453203072/detail/
James-Mac
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 9:25 AMBlasphemer!
Ollie
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 12:51 PMJust looks like a stain to me.
daisy swadesh
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 5:25 AMCheck your facts–Prof. Garlaschelli has been careless to omit that
In the 1970s “Forty American scientists–all of them volunteers from many different disciplines–spent four years and between 100,000 and 150,000 scientific man-hours on the Shroud of Turin Research Project” (from the back jacket) John H. Heller (1983) Report on the Shroud of Turin. One of the things that spurred them on was the finding that the Shroud contained 3-dimensional information readable only by the specialized computors being used to interpret data sent back from interplanetary vehicles. All of those involved had impeccable scientific credentials and in 1978 the Catholic church allowed them over 100 hours to do scientific tests directly on the Shroud of Turin.
Jim
Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 6:00 AMYour comments are so inaccurate as to be almost irresponsible. For starters, the original AP report on which you base your “article” says that the cloth was placed on the model and then rubbed with pigment; this is a very different matter from your claim that a student was covered in red ochre and then the cloth was placed on him.
But it doesn’t matter; either method is completely incapable of reproducing the body image on the shround with any degree of accuracy. It’s been known for many years that the image is entirely superficial and unbelievably thin, residing entirely on the upper microstrands of the object, or according to the most recent research on a layer of starches at the surface not much thicker than bacteria. Any liquid or semi-solid medium would have penetrated much deeper into the linen.
It’s conceivable i suppose that Garlaschelli has duplicated this superficiality, though frankly I’ll believe it when I see it. But that’s not the end of his problems.
The most ludicrous part of his “research” is the idea that he added the blood stains after the body image “for effect”. This just won’t do. On the real shroud, where there are blood stains there is no body image below them; in other words, the blood blocked the image formation process. In other words, the blood was on the shround before the body image, the exact opposite of Garlaschelli’s method.
The blood stains on the real shroud are surgically exact, with every event in the wounds precisely represented down to microscopic levels. Scientists can distinguish venous from arterial blood and map the flows exactly. Does the new “research” achieve that? I really doubt it. Could a 14th century forger have achieved that? Certainly not, unless he or she had a detailed understanding of blood chemistry, physiology and a bunch of other medical disciplines, and probably not even then.
Garlaschelli will get totally shredded by the real shroud scientists once they get a hold of his work.Unfortunately none of their responses will appear in the mass media outlets, which thrive on the kind of sensationalist and superficial propaganda put out by these so-called “sceptic” (read non-scientific) groups.
If anybody is interested in the current state of research on the shroud (and the myths propagated by the media and groups like the one funding Garlaschelli) a good place to start is http://www.shroudofturin4journalists.com.