In What Ways Does the Shroud Display God’s Fingerprint?
The process used to produce the Shroud is not understood by modern science and has not been duplicated. “The Shroud of Turin is the single, most studied artifact in human history” Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce. Volume 109, Issue 2 March-April 2004.
- It is the first photograph of a person.
- It contains unique 3D image properties not found in any other photograph.
- The blood stains and scourge marks show details only visible with ultraviolet light. Ultraviolet light was not discovered until 1801.
- X-ray characteristics appear to be displayed by the image most prominently in the finger bones and teeth. Radiation is the only known source that “…can account for all the Shroud’s body image features, its off-image features and the still-red color of all its blood marks.”
- The Shroud linen fibers contain details only visible with a microscope. Microscopes were not invented until the 1600s.
- The Shroud displays venous and arterial blood in the correct locations while the difference between venous and arterial blood was not discovered until 1593 A.D.
- The body disappeared. We know this because of the state of the blood marks. They were not broken or smeared and if a human had tried to remove the body from the Shroud this would not be the case.
“Research by scientists at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) suggests that the image was formed on the cloth by a burst of light that emanated from the body that it wrapped. These scientists have estimated that the formation of the image in this way would have required around thirty-four-thousand billion watts. This is the equivalent of a nuclear blast between two layers of the cloth.” No laser of this size is in existence and peak power of most nuclear power stations is around 4 billion watts. The shroud image would require more than a thousand times more than this. The “…dead body may well have shone momentarily brighter than the sun!” Still more, Dr. Paolo Di Lazzaro says: “The ultraviolet light necessary to create this image exceeds the maximum power released by all ultraviolet light sources available today. It would require a pulse having a duration shorter than forty-billionth of a second and an intensity of the order of several billion watts to discolour the cloth without penetrating and destroying it.” See my article “The Resurrection What Really Happened” for more detail and references.
Shroud DNA
In 1995 Prof. Canale and Prof. Bollone concluded “…a very ancient specimen of human blood, with fragmented and deteriorated chains of DNA, and probably contaminated by both male and female DNAs…”
In 2007 the American scientist Dr. Tipler analyzed the data and concluded the blood belonged to a male with the XX chromosome containing the SRY gene. “The X chromosome is present, but not the Y one. This is the evidence of the simplest virgin birth…” In regard to the data he concluded “They are the expected signature of the DNA of a male born in a Virgin Birth!” Both points: The Shroud of Turin, Fanti pp. 300-301
Sudarium DNA
AB blood type with mitochondrial DNA. “While doubts cannot be ruled out we have the complete DNA sequence of the HVI region of the blood of the Sudarium.” “Sequence has identification value… only appears on one case of more than 8,000 when checked against European databases.” The actual DNA sequence has not been disclosed to allow for future blind testing. Sudarium of Oviedo, Barta pp. 166-167