One religion, Christianity, tells about a Man named Jesus who was brought before Pilate because Jewish authorities believed that He was blaspheming. Then, the soldiers crucified Him. The wounds on the Man of the shroud fit perfectly with those that Jesus bore. The Christian religion, therefore, informs science who the Man of the shroud could possibly be. Furthermore, religion tells science the possible origin of the shroud of Turin.
Religion teaches scientists important things about the artifact.
Science needs religion so much that science is less interesting without it. In 1988, a carbon-14 test dated the shroud to the middle ages. Thus, the public got the word that the shroud was a fake, believing again that science and religion can never be in harmony. Before the C-14 dating, many scientists gladly worked with the shroud, relishing the mystery and the hint of divine creation surrounding it. When the shroud was sensationally declared to be a fake, as in the Eric Jumper speech, many scientists felt sad because of the loss of this religious aspect.