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Aaron, you wrote: "This face is just too narrow. And the nose is the wrong
proportion. This resembles medieval Gothic art. In fact, the man looks
European." This is really an optical illusion. Look carefully at the picture. Notice
that the image shows a gaunt looking face with deep
eyes and a very narrow face. This appearance is caused by dark vertical and
horizontal bands. The most noticeable band is vertical and runs down from the
top of the picture to the bottom between the outer edge of the right (your
right) eye and roughly the hairline. The is a similar band on the left side of
the face. And though not as noticeable, there are dark bands that run down both
sides of the nose making the nose appear thin.
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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.”
And yet, the shroud is a remarkable artefact, one of the few religious relics to have a justifiably mythical status. 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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