-> I suggest you read (or re-read) Heller's book; he claims that many
-> Shroud details were discovered only after modern scientific analysis,
-> details that a medieval forger would not have needed to include.
-> I.e., microscopic particles of dirt on the feet, the abrasion of the
-> tip of the nose, the precise pattern that a Roman flagrum produces in
-> human flesh, the two paths that the blood took in running down the
-> arm during crucifixion, ... why were all these details so carefully
-> included? A true skeptic does not simply dismiss the details, but
-> rather explains them so the "believer" has no room for belief. And
-> let me turn
I especially liked the spike marks being in the wrist and not in the palm of the hand which experts claim would have ripped out. I believe that the shroud is a fake, but I'm sure we foundthings that the forger did not know would be found. Maybe it was created by a group of people who went to the length of actually putting some human through the whole ritual of crucifixion (a volunteer, of course). I'm sure there would have been many volunteers in the religious community at that time.
We have a human tendency to disbelieve the science of others. as a result a number of events just keep on being brought up over and over. Marilyn Monroe, John Kennedy's assasination, UFO's, Darwinism. There is only one cure that I know of, and that is personal education with an open mind rather than a profit motive. Say, when is the next Bermuda triangle book coming out? :)
