The Shroud

Just watched a very interesting program on the Shroud of Turin on the History Channel. The Shroud is real!

Basically, here is a summary:
1. Shroud is not painted or hand produced.
2. Shroud could not have been forged in any way at all.
3. The images are made from blood.
4. The blood patterns could have only been made from a real person who suffered the wounds; the flow is perfect with gravity (as attested by a real coroner who examined it)
5. The wounds line-up exactly with Gospel accounts
6. The Shroud lines up perfectly with the blood stains on another famous cloth, The Sudarium of Oviedo (the cloth first used to cover Jesus' face after the crucifixion)
7. The Shroud, when analyzed by a team of physicists, produced 3D elevation that could not have been created by any forgery.
8. The pollens in the Shroud reveal plant fibers from all of the places reported to have held the Shroud in history, starting in Jerusalem
9. There is a new document from the Knights Templar which accounts for a period of history when the Shroud was unaccounted for; we now know it was in the hands of the Templars
10. The carbon dating of the Shroud done in the late '80s was bogus. A piece of the Shroud which was a medieval restoration was used. This has been verified by many scientists
11. A Hungarian illuminated manuscript accounts the Shroud about 150 years prior to the faulty carbon-dating from the '80s
12. No one knows how the human face and other parts (not the blood) were imprinted on the Shroud; it is believed that it was caused by immense light or heat by scientists... could this be the process of the Resurrection?
13. The Shroud contains 3D imagery in 2D format, which means that it was actually on a human being's face. Likewise, it is unknown how the 3D data was imprinted on the cloth.
14. It is clear that this article contains the burial wrappings of a crucified and scourged man from the first century A.D. It also matches up with another famous burial cloth. Likewise, it would be rare for a person to be scourged and crucified, and Jesus was a unique case as Pilate attempted to free him. In addition, the Shroud accounts for the pierced side; another rarity for a crucified man as the point is the long, agonizing suffocation. It is amazing that the Shroud, along with the Sudarium, has been almost perfectly preserved for almost 2,000 years.

The Shroud is real! Very cool.