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

Adjusting Scale

With any height-field, you can adjust the scale to just about anything you want. You can make crest of a crater’s edge or the nose on the shroud face seem as high as Mount Everest or so low that only an ant could notice the perturbations on the surface. Not knowing the scale is not a problem if you have a basis for estimating it. For instance, if you are reasonably sure that the image is of a man, adjusting the scale to what seems reasonable for a man is appropriate.

Picknett and Prince were right when they wrote, “we . . . believed that the Shroud exhibits amazing, inexplicable, and unique 3-D information. . . . we could not see how [Leonardo da Vinci] had managed to produce that particular effect and felt that attempting to replicate it would be a real stumbling block in our experimental work. Had they tried they would have certainly found that it was a real stumbling block.