![]() ![]() The truly comic portion of the video comes when they use a sponge and a mannequin to recreate the lance wound to side. The test subjects in the video are in a nice air conditioned lab with clean skin, no wounds, and no trauma. The blood flow could have followed the path of another wound or dried dirt from the numerous falls described in the passion accounts. If the figure is Jesus, he would have been filthy, coated in dried blood from countless lacerations, caked in dirt, and probably spasming, all in the fierce mid-day sun and heat. The researchers claim only the direction and shape matter, not the viscosity of the blood, as though these things are unrelated and unaffected by myriad other factors. What would the blood flow have been like for a dehydrated man who was already bleeding and suffering multiple trauma? Where does one begin with this? If you look at the video, the blood is flowing like water, which suggests an anticoagulant was added. Taken together the results of these tests are therefore not consistent with the general trend of the rivulets of blood on the Shroud of Turin and seem to refuse to testify in favor of their authenticity, but rather in an artistic or didactic. However doing the bleeding experimental with dummy lying (for groped to reproduce leaking from image ridge of the Shroud, which also derives from the wound to the chest for bleeding post-mortal), the result was quite different. The trend trickles result in this case is vertical, consistent with that from image front of the Shroud of Turin. A sponge (of the same size of the alleged injury readable on the shroud) soaked synthetic blood was pressed through a special grip on the torso of a mannequin standing. Scholars have finally run a BPA for the wound to the right side. ![]() In none of these tests has achieved a performance of rivulets similar to that seen on the Shroud. To simulate the hypothesis that the bleeding had occurred (perhaps by a body washed) after death, blood was dripped from the back of the hand of a volunteer lying with his hands on the pubis in the same position of the Man of the Shroud ( both legs stretched that flexed). The arms were always placed vertically, even with hands over his head, to play the position assumed if the condemned had been crucified in a single vertical pole. ![]() The new tests now conducted have considered other aspects: In previous studies, the forearm was kept at different inclinations with the aid of a goniometer ballistic – 0 °, the horizontal arm, 90 °, vertical arm – and a modest amount of blood had been made on the back of the hand casting and along the forearm.Īll tests had shown that in order that the stream of blood flowing on the outside of the forearm, as visible on the shroud, the angle of the arm itself must be greater than 80 ° and less than 90 °, and then placing it in a position almost, but not totally vertical. The full study is paywalled, but a press release from UAAR (Union Atheists Agnostics and Rationalists) to coincide with the original paper explains what happened next: They did this by taping a thin cannula to the back of a test subject’s hand and attaching the other end to a bag of blood. The test are absurd and inconclusive, attempting to use an analysis of the shape of bloodstains to determine the posture of the body depicted on the shroud. ![]() The tests were designed to see if bloodstain patterns on the shroud matched the way blood would flow from nail wounds and a spear to wound to side. Borrini claims to be a Catholic, and Garlaschelli is an atheist and skeptic with a Flying Spaghetti Monster logo prominent on his blog, so make of that what you will. The paper is called “A BPA Approach to the Shroud of Turin,” and it’s by Matteo Borrini, professor of forensic anthropology at John Moores University in Liverpool (UK), and Luigi Garlaschelli, a chemist from the University of Pavia. After further tests and peer review, the results were published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences in July of this year. The new research was presented in 2014 at a conference in Orlando, when certain limitations and flaws in the methodology were observed. The Shroud of Turin may or may not be the authentic burial cloth of Jesus Christ, but the Latest Scientific Research (TM) doesn’t move the needle on that argument one direction or the other no matter how many “Shroud Proved Fake!” headlines you see. ![]()
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