The Shroud of Turin

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A former pastor of mine’s daughter went to New St. Andrews about this time and learned of this. I think I remember that she said he tried it, and that the sun from different angles throughout the day caused the 3D effect: Shroud of Turin Forgery Theory.

In 2005 he published an essay in Books & Culture entitled “Father Brown Fakes the Shroud”. The piece applied the paradigm analysis of G.K. Chesteron’s literary detective, Father Brown, to the mystery of the Shroud of Turin. The essay (and accompanying experiment) garnered him international attention and was featured in multiple news sources, including Discovery Channel News, ABC’s World News Tonight, Good Morning America, Der Spiegel, and even a segment in Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. Images from his experiment are available at shadowshroud.com.

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