Why an Atheist Thinks the Shroud of Turin is the Real Deal

Albedo Image

The most interesting tidbit in Adler’s words is this simple phrase: “this is an albedo image, it will fail a VP-8 test. . .” That, more than anything, is why the image was not created in some room sized camera.

The world albedo is not a word most of us use very often, if ever. It was coined by Johann Heinrich Lambert in 1760. Lambert was another genius. He was, like so many geniuses of a previous era, a man of many talents. He was an astronomer, a physicist, a mathematician and a philosopher. He suggested that our sun was part of a group of stars which moved together through the Milky Way, something that helped keep the astronomer Herschel busy when he was not making glass plates for cameras or discovering that hyposulphite of soda would fix photographs. Herschal was refining his father’s confirmation of what Lambert hypothesized.