[GeronL]

The clincher for me is: This flies crosswise of the image on the Shroud of Turin. No sale!

Is that sarcasm?

[Tucker39]

No indeed. I’d much rather trust the image on the extensively, exhaustively tested Shroud in which Christ would have to have been entombed, than something someone cobbled up 400 years after our Savior ascended into Heaven.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Is that sarcasm?

The Shroud has been studied by hundreds of scientists, including atheistic skeptics, many of whom have converted, and as of today, the image cannot be explained scientifically.

One characteristic of the Shroud that I find especially compelling (I work in 3D illustration/animation) is not only that it's a photographic negative (discovered in the 19th century), but that it's an embedded 3D terrain map. This property was discovered in the 1970s, when NASA scientists fed the image through a terrain analyzer.

That was one clever medieval forger.