The Shroud of Turin is Christ's burial cloth and is more evidence that He rose from the dead.

Based on all most recent scientific and historical data, it is an inference to the best explanation that the Turin Shroud is Christ's burial cloth and supports the evidence that He rose from the dead. A vast majority of the evidence I will present was found after approx 2000 AD, after advances in technology made further research possible. I anticipate that most of my opponents data will be older. This isn't to say that makes it wrong, just that almost all of it has been refuted by more recent findings. Support for position: A representation of some of the most important recent findings and data: 1) The image on the shroud was caused by some form of energy. "Energy would have been required for the functioning of the discoloration mechanism that to alter the covalent bonds of the carbon atoms in the cellulose molecules that caused the discoloration. " (1a) "Di Lazzaro and his colleagues at Italy"s National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) conducted five years of experiments, using state-of-the-art excimer lasers to train short bursts of ultraviolet light on raw linen, in an effort to simulate the image"s coloration" (1b) Citations: 1a (academic): . http://www.academia.edu... 1b (popular): . https://news.nationalgeographic.com... 2) The possibility that the image was painted has been ruled out. The image is uniformly 1-2 threads deep throughout the entire image. Any paint or dye should bleed further into the cloth. While previous scientific research had indicated that it was at least possible that there were base paint-like components in the image that could have been used, this has been ruled out with the development of microscopic imaging. There are no brush strokes and the image is exactly uniform in depth throughout the entire image. The famous counter argument was Dr. Walter McCrone's analysis in 1979 . http://www.mccroneinstitute.org... Asserting that iron oxide, hematite, mercuric sulphide was present in the cloth and must have been used as paint. It is important to note that the shroud was venerated and painted copies were made, so the shroud was certainly exposed to paint at the microscopic level, having been in front of painters as they painted it. There is 0 evidence that the burnt image itself contains paint or pigmentation. If the image is a fake, the forger was able to prevent the paint from going more than 2 threads deep and there are no brush strokes. See image citation below. Dr McCrones claim was that the blood was not authentic, but was painted over the image. DNA has been found in the blood. (2d) The most glaring statement from done by Dr Raymond Rogers at Los Alamos National Laboratory "This helped confirm the fact that the image was not painted. " (2c) Citations: 2a)(book) Antonacci, M. , 2000, "Resurrection of the Shroud: New Scientific, Medical, and Archeological Evidence," M. Evans & Co: New York NY, p.73 2b) Small sample of image fibers. . https://1.bp.blogspot.com... 2c) (Scientific) . https://www.shroud.com... Raymond N. Rogers University of California, Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM, USA 2d) . https://www.nature.com... "Uncovering Sources of DNA found on the Turin Shroud" 3) The shroud was Carbon Dated to be from the middle ages by independent labs. It has since been proven that a bad sample was taken. The Church demanded that the sample be taken from a damaged far corner. It has since been shown that this corner had been repaired in the past. Cotton existed in the samples that were taken, but there is no cotton in the rest of the shroud, showing that repair work had been done to the edges during the middle ages. The shroud has since been dated to the time of Christ. This includes spectroscopic dating. "The new test, by scientists at the University of Padua in northern Italy, used the same fibers from the 1988 tests but disputes the findings. The new examination dates the shroud to between 300 BC and 400 AD, which would put it in the era of Christ. "(3a) Even Dr Ray Rogers, one of the leading Shroud Research Team and was an initial vocal skeptic, admitted the Carbon Dating result was useless. Citations : 3a) (Popular). https://www.usatoday.com... 3b) (Popular) . https://www.huffingtonpost.com... 3c) (scientific) . https://www.researchgate.net... 3d) (scientific) . https://www.researchgate.net... 3e) (scientific) . https://www.researchgate.net... 3f) (scientific). https://www.researchgate.net... 4) Coins on the eyes of the individual (this was a common practice at the time) can be dated to be in circulation by Pilate. Citations: 4a) . http://people.duke.edu... 4b) . http://www.numismalink.com... 6) There is human blood on the shroud, which refutes one of the most reliable science to dismiss the shroud Dr. Walter McCrone's assertion that it was merely painted. Not only is no paint found on the image, but now we know that the blood is blood. Citations : 6a) (Scientific) . https://www.nature.com... "Uncovering Sources of DNA found on the Turin Shroud" 7) There is bilirubin in the blood on the shroud. Bilirubin is responsible for the coloring seen in bruises. If the shroud is a hoax, it means a man was beaten severely. To create a hoax, the individual tortured somebody to get their blood. They anticipated that we would know how to extract it in the future and prove that it was from a beaten individual. "Prof. Pierluigi Baima Bollone has shown that the stains on the Shroud of Turin are human blood group AB. From a biochemical viewpoint. .. not only haemoglobin but also other specific compounds of blood and, among other things, the presence of bilirubin in significant quantities. " (7a) citations: 7a) (medical) . http://www.ohioshroudconference.com... Dr. Carlo Goldoni Doctor of Medicine, Clinical Pathologist 8) The person on the shroud has a damaged nose and a facial bones, and eyes were swollen. Evidence of a severe beating. (The bible states that Jesus was struck as well as scourged) Citations: 8a) (medical) . https://www.shroud.com... Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP) "An Autopsy on the Man of the Shroud" Robert Bucklin, M. D. , J. D. 9) There are pollen fossils on the shroud from plants that occur only in Israel. There is pollen from the entire route from Israel to Italy, including Turkey. I guess the forger anticipated this as well. "An analysis of pollen grains and plant images places the origin of the Shroud of Turin . .. in Jerusalem before the 8th Century. " (9a) Citations: 9a)(Scientific) . https://www.sciencedaily.com... XVI International Botanical Congress 9b)(Scientific) . https://www.shroud.com... (STRUP) Dr. Avinoam Danin, Professor of Botany, Department of Evolution, Systematics, and Ecology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Conclusion: With the scientific evidence for the Shroud of Turin and all biblical and non-biblical textual evidence, it is most rational to believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead and the Turin Shroud is genuine.