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The bloodstains, as forensic scientists and chemists now know, are from real
human blood.
From forensic observation we see that the stains are from real human bleeding
from real wounds on a real human body that came into direct contact with the
cloth. When the stains formed, the man was lying on his back with his feet near
one end of the fourteen foot long, banner shaped piece of cloth.
The cloth was drawn over the top of his head and loosely draped over his face
and the full length of his body down to his feet. Many of the stains have the
distinctive forensic signature of clotting with red corpuscles about the edge of the clot and a clear
yellowish halo of serum.
Some forensic experts think that can identify that some of the blood flow was
venous and some was arterial. Most of the blood flowed while the man was alive
and it remained on his body. There is some blood that clearly oozed from a dead
body, as was the case for stains resulting from a wound in the man’s chest.
Here, the blood, with a deeper color and more viscous consistency, as is the
case for blood from a postmortem wound, ran from a chest wound, flowed around
the side of the body and formed a puddle about the man’s lower back.
Mingled with the blood from the chest wound are stains from a clear bodily
fluid, perhaps pericardial fluid or fluid from the pleural sac or pleural
cavity. This suggests that the man received a postmortem stabbing wound in the
vicinity of the heart.
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The
scientific study of the Turin shroud is like a microcosm of the
scientific search for God: it does more to inflame any debate than
settle it.”
It is
simply not known how the ghostly image of a serene, bearded man was
made.”
Scientist-Journalist Philip Ball Nature, that most prestigious of scientific journals, that once had bragging rights to claim that the Shroud was fake, responding to new, peer-reviewed studies that discredit the carbon 14 dating and show that the Shroud could be authentic. WHAT WE KNOW IN 2005
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