I love Italian atheists. Whether they're suing the church for false advertising and fraud or replicating the Shroud of Turin to show how bunk it really is, those are some ballsy nonbelievers. Godless 'em.
From BBC News:
(Click on the link above to read the rest of the story.) Happy Shroud Day!A professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia said he had used materials and techniques that were available in the Middle Ages.
These included applying pigment to cloth and then heating it in an oven.
Tests 20 years ago dated the fabric to between 1260 and 1390, but believers say it is an authentic image of Christ.
The linen cloth, measuring about 4.4m by 1.1m (14.4ft by 3.6ft), holds the concealed image of a man bearing all the signs of crucifixion, including blood stains.
Tests in 1988 have been repeatedly challenged, and scientists remain unsure how the image came to be on the cloth.
Scientist Luigi Garlaschelli, who is due to present his findings to a conference on the paranormal at the weekend, said many people believed that the shroud "has unexplainable characteristics that cannot be reproduced by human means".
But, he added: "The result obtained clearly indicates that this could be done with the use of inexpensive materials and with a quite simple procedure."
