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Scientist recreates the Shroud of Turin

Using only methods and materials available in the Middle Ages, Luigi Garlaschelli, professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia, has created a shroud that is very close in appearance to the relic in Turin Cathedral. The process involved placing a linen sheet flat over a volunteer, who w ...

Forum Discussion: Shroud of Turin

The Shroud of Turin is probably the most famous Christian relic in existence. Believers insist that the Shroud not only proves that Jesus existed, was crucified, and was buried in a tomb, but in fact that the Shroud actually shows evidence of a miraculous resurrection. An entire apologetics industry ...

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Shroud of Turin fake says Italian scientist

Christianity is dealt a blow by Italian scientist Luigi Garlaschelli who claims to have reproduced the Shroud of Turin, the alleged ancient burial cloth of Jesus Christ. This furthers the scientist's claim that the Shroud of Turin is fake and is merely a hoax perpetrated by...read more ...

How to Make Your Own Shroud of Turin [DIY]

Further proving that the Shroud of Turin—a linen cloth that believers say covered Jesus after the crucifixion—is a big fake, scientists have made a reproduction using inexpensive materials and easy techniques from the Middle Ages. This is how: Italian chemist Luigi Garlaschelli and his team used ...

Scientists Reproduce Shroud Of Turin

Scientists have reproduced the Shroud of Turin — revered as the cloth

that covered Jesus in the tomb — and say the experiment proves the

relic was man-made, a group of Italian debunkers claimed Monday. ...

Scientists Reproduce Shroud Of Turin

Scientists have reproduced the Shroud of Turin — revered as the cloth

that covered Jesus in the tomb — and say the experiment proves the

relic was man-made, a group of Italian debunkers claimed Monday. ...

Shroud of Turin is not a miracle [Pharyngula]

I get thrown the miracle of the shroud of Turin on a regular basis — just last week someone confronted me with it, basically saying "A-ha! Jesus existed because there's an old scrap of cloth with a face on it!" It doesn't matter that I point out that it's been dated to the 13th century, and was no ...

Italian Scientists Claim to Debunk the Shroud of Turin

Scientists have reproduced the Shroud of Turin -- revered as the cloth that covered Jesus in the tomb -- and say the experiment proves the relic was man-made, a group of Italian debunkers claimed Monday. The shroud bears the figure of a crucified man, complete with blood seeping out of nailed hands ...

Italian Scientist Reproduces Shroud of Turin

It has been one of the 20th century’s most intriguing artifacts, a shroud measuring 14 feet, 4 inches by 3 feet, 7 inches, with what appears to be an imprint of Jesus Christ.  The so called Shroud of Turin shows an image of the front and back of a man with long hair, with arms crossed in front ...

Shroud of Turin Replica Casts Doubt on Original

The Shroud of Turin was a fake, according to a group that reproduced the revered cloth. ...

Italian chemist makes his own Shroud of Turin

An Italian chemistry professor named Luigi Garlaschelli likes Jesus's burial cloth so much he made his own. Carbon dating prove the original Shroud of Turin was made in the Middle Ages. Garlaschelli created his shroud using materials available then. He put a sheet on a volunteer, and rubbed pigment ...