Dear readers friendsin these hot days of mid -August, he has made a northern news of (alleged) new discoveries on the Shy. The guarded sheet in Turin would be a medieval false, an image made with the overlap of a sheet on the “sculpture” (and not on the real body) of a crucifix.
The “news”, the result of a study through 3D models by a Brazilian researcher, Cicero Moraesand published on an authoritative international scientific journal, Archaeometrya “unwelcome” was soon revealed: the theses proposed by the author had already been advanced over a century ago and the methodology used is, by his own admission, incomplete, therefore far from bearing “infallible” results.
In fact, it was promptly “disassembled” – with much more solid arguments – by the authoritative International Study Center on the Turin Shroud (Complete analysis on www.sindone.it).
The affair of the alleged “revelations” makes you think in various aspects. In an interview, Emanuela Marinellione of the most accredited Shrouds, he found as his article on Archaeometrywho denied medieval dating, had been ignored by mainstream communication, while it becomes viral unreliable news. According to the scholar, the Shroud, “strong witness of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus who has aroused many conversions”, can only “bother those who are against Christianity”.
Another critical element is the scientific deficiency Moraes’ article has shown it to the article, but for the general public, the sensationalism than the careful examination counts more. Well did the archbishop of Turin, Roberto Repolecustodian of the Shroud, to publish a note in which “the concern for the superficiality of certain conclusions” is underlined and it is invited to the “necessary critical attention to what is easily published”.
Under discussion is not the freedom of scientific research, but the partial and questionable method used, which has neglected the physical and chemical evidence and was based only on a digital three -dimensional simulation program.
The Shroud is not the subject of faithbut for millions of believers he remembers the one who “loved me and has delivered himself for me” (Galati 2.20). It is “an authentic image of love and hope” (Emanuela Marinelli). Authoritative scientists – such as Marinelli and Baima Bollone – studied it rigorously, showing that it is plausible to believe in its authenticity.
Well discuss it in scientific, as has been done for over a century, but with criteria and honesty.
(photo above: ANSA)
