A New Attack on the Shroud of Turin

[Michie]

Has the Shroud finally been debunked by science?​

SEEC (the Shroud Educational Endeavors Corporation)’s first International Scientific Shroud Conference since COVID had just started when the New York Post published a story on a new “study” debunking the Shroud of Turin. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

The conference was held at the new Augustine Institute Center in St. Louis, with scientists from around the world gathered to present new research, evidence, and studies on the Shroud of Turin. I was greatly honored to be invited to speak on my environmental and climate research providing supporting evidence to the Gospels with connections to Jesus’ shroud and sudarium. At the conference, I joined key Shroud scientists from the STURP team that studied the Shroud in 1978. We quickly realized that this story was another erroneous attention-grabbing, money-making claim.

Sadly, certain media groups continue to run headlines to incite attention, because reporting the truth or the complete picture to debunk this “study” doesn’t make money, get more subscribers, or earn promotions.

This recent study was done by a Brazilian designer, Cicero Morares, who produces 3D digital models on computers. He uses free software to see how cloth would drape over shapes and detects all contact points between the cloth and the created shape. His computer-made shape was flat—a low-relief sculpture. Morares digitally created the top part of a human shape and saw the cloth making full contact.

Continued below.

A New Attack on the Shroud of Turin

News headlines tease a scientific study showing that the Shroud covered a sculpture, not a real human body. What's the truth?

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[FaithT]

Has the Shroud finally been debunked by science?​

SEEC (the Shroud Educational Endeavors Corporation)’s first International Scientific Shroud Conference since COVID had just started when the New York Post published a story on a new “study” debunking the Shroud of Turin. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

The conference was held at the new Augustine Institute Center in St. Louis, with scientists from around the world gathered to present new research, evidence, and studies on the Shroud of Turin. I was greatly honored to be invited to speak on my environmental and climate research providing supporting evidence to the Gospels with connections to Jesus’ shroud and sudarium. At the conference, I joined key Shroud scientists from the STURP team that studied the Shroud in 1978. We quickly realized that this story was another erroneous attention-grabbing, money-making claim.

Sadly, certain media groups continue to run headlines to incite attention, because reporting the truth or the complete picture to debunk this “study” doesn’t make money, get more subscribers, or earn promotions.

This recent study was done by a Brazilian designer, Cicero Morares, who produces 3D digital models on computers. He uses free software to see how cloth would drape over shapes and detects all contact points between the cloth and the created shape. His computer-made shape was flat—a low-relief sculpture. Morares digitally created the top part of a human shape and saw the cloth making full contact.

Continued below.

A New Attack on the Shroud of Turin

News headlines tease a scientific study showing that the Shroud covered a sculpture, not a real human body. What's the truth?

www.catholic.com

I read about that Morares study awhile ago and it shook my faith in the Shroud. I’m happy to have read the article you posted. Thank you for posting it.

 

[The Barbarian]

Science can neither prove nor disprove the miraculous. The fact that the face on the shroud does not look as it would if it was actually wrapped around a face proves nothing. God could have made it look "right" in two dimensions as part of the miracle.

If it deepens and enriches your faith to regard it, then that's a beneficial thing.