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

Fred Zugibe

Under ultraviolet fluorescent photography, all of the wounds show a serum retraction ring of albumin around them that would have been completely un-known to an artist forger. It is very important to note that no image is present wherever blood is present, in-dicating that the image formation occurred after the blood staining and that the presence of blood prevented image formation in those areas. Although this is not discernable with. the naked eye, this was demonstrated by Adler [Professor Emeritus at Western Connecticut State University and one of the world’s leading authorities on the chemistry of blood] who removed blood from several fibers in image areas by subjecting them to proteolytic enzymatic hydrolysis (which removes blood). No image was present on the fibers that contained blood. If this were done by human hands, the artist would have had to paint all of the bloodstains with the albumin halos in all of the wounds and blood flows, including the blood of the scourge marks, using human blood and then paint the body image around them in their precise locations and eliminate images wherever there was blood. A complicated process, indeed.