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

John L. Brown

Rogers also provided some material to John L. Brown, formerly Principal Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute's Energy and Materials Sciences Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Brown worked independently and with different methods, including a Scanning Electron Microscope. Rogers hoped for independent confirmation and he got it. Of one particular set of microscopic images, Brown wrote:

This would appear to be obvious evidence of a medieval artisan’s attempt to dye a newly added repair region of fabric to match the aged appearance of the remainder of the Shroud.