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Shroud of Turin and the Resurrection of Jesus :
Forensic Pathology
Old Blood Does Not Always Turn Black
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Forensic Pathology.
Some have argued that the blood could not be real
because old blood always turns black with age. The bloodstains on
the Shroud are red. But this argument is scientifically invalid.
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Ancient cloth, as it was manufactured in the
Middle East during the first century, was starched on the loom and then
washed in suds of the Soapwort plant. Ingredients of this natural soap
are hemolytic, which would keep the blood red.
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The blood on the Shroud is rich in bilirubin, a
bile pigment produced when a human body is under severe traumatic
stress. Bilirubin is bright red and stays red and will cause old blood
to remain red in color.
The argument is moot. We know the blood is real.
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Alan Adler, a professor of
chemistry at Western Connecticut State University and an
expert on porphyrins, the types of colored compounds seen in blood
(chlorophyll and many other natural products) concluded that the
blood is real.
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Alder and John Heller, Professor
of Life Sciences at the New England Institute, published
their conclusions that the bloodstains were genuinein the
peer-reviewed scientific journal Applied Optics [1980]. They
reported spectral analysis confirmed that the heme was converted
into its parent porphyrin.
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Baima Bollone, working independently also found
the heme porphyrin and globulin in flakes of blood from Shroud
samples.
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X-ray-fluorescence spectra showed excess iron in
blood areas, as expected for blood.
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Microchemical tests for proteins were positive
in the bloodstains but not in any other parts of the Shroud.
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Forensic Pathology of the
Images on the Shroud of Turin
Bloodstain Observations
How We Know that the Blood is
Real Human Blood
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