If you're a true Freeper, you'll keep an open mind.
As a scientist, these are the following reasons to be compelled and excited by the Shroud of Turin:
I dare you to contemplate them with an open mind.
A forger would have a nearly impossible task!
1. The Shroud is a photographic NEGATIVE image.
A millennium or two before photography was invented, this image lay in wait for mankind to discover. Secondo Pio, commissioned to photograph the Shroud, fell on his knees in the darkroom when he looked at a detailed face of a man for the first time in history around 1900.
2. The image has 3D qualities.
That's right, it's a 3D image, a millennium before such a concept was understood let alone reproducible.
Our forger is becoming quite the unique fellow!
3. The Shroud has an image that appears as partly a projection, and partly a contact transfer.
Strange indeed. It has orthogonal image qualities as if an image were projecting perpindicular through the cloth, but with an intensity proportional to the distance from the cloth of the hypothetical body. That is, the image is stronger where a body would have been closer, and faded where it would have been further away. Also, there are direct transfer elements where a body may have made contact including human blood.
4. No one to this day can explain what scientific phenomenon could make such an image on cloth.
Our forger is becoming more and more unique.
5. The image contains anatomical elements of the crucifixion process only recently discovered, and that were completely unknown at the time of its discovery and emergence in modern history.
The forger would require knowledge of crucifixion unknown in his era.
6. Iconographic evidence indicates other images of Christ centuries earlier than the forgery date have elements derived from the Shroud.
This one is quite intriguing. One example is a square on the forehead that appears in other representations of Christ centuries earlier. You see, the Shroud has an element in the cloth structure that looks like a square. This was not consciously forged, it is exists in the Shroud because it is a defect in the cloth itself. Other representations of Christ with a square on the forehead are more likely imitative of the original Shroud than the other way around.
7. The state of the art of drawing and painting at the time of its purported forgery was far inferior than the quality of the image on the Shroud.
Our forger is having quite a time of it, isn't he?
If you as a scientist believe it is a forgery, congratulations!
You must therefore conclude that your forger created an image by a process which to-date is unknown, as a photographic negative image so that it would be unappreciated by his peers, in a drawing style and quality that was centuries more advanced than his best contemporaries, with anatomical knowledge of crucifixion unknown in his era, with unprecedented access to worldwide representations of Christ so that he would embed defects and other qualities in the materials and image.
I present to you an alternative answer.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, The Lord Jesus Christ.