Researchers concluded that the linen seems to be patched with bloodstains from a standing model, not a crucified man or a facedown corpse, reports BuzzFeed News, adding evidence to claims that it is a fraud. . . The investigation into the bloodstain pattern on the cloth was reported Tuesday in the Journal of Forensic Sciences and is apparently the first such analysis of the controversial shroud.
There are so many things wrong with the conclusions of Buzzfeed's 'forensic experts' that I'm at a loss where to start. Concluding that the Shroud seems have been 'patched with bloodstains' to the pattern from a 'standing model or a face down corpse' shows this 'expert' has no concept of the over 100 years of preceding work by world class forensic experts who have experimented with corpses hanging on crosses to find out exactly what way blood flows on a human body due to the blood flow on the image on the Shroud. Those papers can be found here at Scientific Papers at Shroud.com. I could probably list a least a dozen articles by expert forensic investigators and professors of forensic scientists who have done studies on the blood flows on the Shroud in the past hundred years using both corpses and live human subjects.
Instead, 'Matteo Borrini, a forensic scientist at Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom, told BuzzFeed News. “Even a crucified or hanging person should leave a distinct blood pattern on the cloth, which would be fascinating information to have.”
Hello, Professor Borrini, a crucified person is essentially erect, not facedown. That shows Borrini did not even bother to study the current state of the forensic literature on the Shroud before opening his ignorant mouth, or he would have known that these very things he would know these data he would be fascinated to have IS AVAILABLE, and has been published in peer reviewed scientific journals and been replicated, numerous times by experts in the field.
In addition, once dead, a corpse does not continue to bleed. Face down? The only time the body of Jesus would have been face down was when it was being removed from the cross and carried to the tomb, and already dead, a period several hours after Jesus had died. This demonstrates that, once again, this so called 'expert' has not examined the blood stains on the Shroud, nor really thought through his 'theory.'
“The fact that flowing bloodstains exist at all on a deceased body that was reportedly cleaned also raises questions,” he added.
Does Professor Borrini, et al, even know WHY the women were going to the Tomb that Sunday morning when they discovered the body missing? They were going to WASH the body which was NOT done on the eve of the Sabbath because their was literally no time to get done before sundown and the beginning of the period no work was allowed to be done. Ergo, it had not been washed, only packed with herbs and perhaps anointed with oils on the head before the men who had moved it to the tomb rushed out to ritually cleanse themselves before the beginning of the Sabbath. — PING!
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