Mar 26 2010Computer Modeling: Is This Jesus' Face?

LET THE RELIGION FLAME WARS BEGIN!!

And I'm going to start it off by saying, "Praise Jeebus!" -Homer Simpson

HEYOOOOOOOOO

Basing the 'face of Jesus' on the shroud is the most logical idea I've heard all week. It's not like the shroud has been proven a fake or anything...

YESSSS!!!!! i suggested this woohoo.. *sigh* this was the highlight of my year... sad huh.

He has a jew nose. (not being rasist just sayin)

There will be no flame wars. It is alright my children. This is no need to start any argument.

Everyone knows Jesus was blond.

And didn't he wear a red suit?

HAHAHAHAHA!

Stupid Tv people.

by all means, watch the show.... also, isn't April 1st next week? I'm just wondering.... still, by all means, watch the show....

Jean Reno is Jesus?
I've always had my suspicions.

lol @ #3

I was going to say the same thing. I think the shroud has been thoroughly disproven several times now.

thats osama!!!

Wow, Dishy, you're right, but I'm surprised anyone else knew that!

Jesus was tried as a criminal in Roman courts, and Romans were known for keeping highly accurate records. Their records state that Jesus was tall, had blue eyes, and sun-bleached blond hair.

I thought the shroud wasn't even Jesus... I thought it was just some dude from a couple hundred years ago. I don't believe anything on the web anymore

Are you fucking kidding me?

There is so much wrong with this whole idea it isn't even wrong.

You're recreating an individual from a medieval forgery and pretending it's some apocalyptic nutter who lived over a thousand years earlier?

jesus got a jew nose....

Belief of lack of belief in Jesus aside...
...the shroud was carbon dated in the late 80's, and the cloth it's made of is from right about 1300. Plus, the Archbishop of Turin admitted it was a fake (he's the guy that keeps it for the church). Also, Pope Clement VII declared it was a fake in 1390, but could be used as a stand-in as long as people were told it was a fake.

But yeah, it's the real deal, despite the church telling us it's fake...so this show will be just chock-full of factual, useful information. I can't wait!

I love the Maya magic reconstruction. Now all we need is Dreamworks to throw this quirky character into that wonderful Shrek series that's all the rage.

Ooh, ooh, do Vishnu next!

Stupid on every level. They should keep the mumbo jumbo shit off the so-called educational channels. Agree with 19.

he's white! i knew it!

Hmm isn't there something about worshiping images in the Bible?

@13 tard

this is the dumbest thing ever. first of all not only is the shroud not real, the computer images are only interpretations of interpretations to the thousandth degree. There's so much error possibilities the base and the end product its absurd. But I'll enjoy watching the history channel try to sway the audience.

But nice shoutout to Maya.. looks like 2008

It is a guy from the Middle Ages. This was proven in the 1980's.

Science is the poetry of reality.

@5 and 16, well that's natural, he was JEWISH.

having said that, I am highly skeptical, but you people seem to have pointed out all the flaws, so my input is not really necessary, is it?

ZOMG!! The Son of God is Frank Zappa??!?!?

no one can stand against the power of the Geekologie Debate Team!!! well whats next guys? we've already torn apart and destroyed all the credibility of this show. hmmm... coke or pepsi?

i don't want to know what Jesus may have looked like ...

what if he looked like a douche bag?!

jeopardize my faith an ish ...

less info the better

Hmm... looks like Rasputin.

Rasputin was Jesus?

He looks jewish...

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-R.I.P. Robert Culp

@32 contact section is for GW. Also, usually people wait for a response before they assume they've won an argument.

According to a documentary, the shroud had a small amount of thread that was newer than the original thread, and that's what the scientists who did that carbon-dating thang tested on.

I doubt this, anyone know more about it?

What you think? Is this to be respected or not. What does this actually acomplish except ratings. Dont mess with peoples beliefs no matter how insegnificant. Media know your limit

@33

Obviously, you've never played Half-Life 2.

Sorry for spelling. very drunk but sentiment intended none the less

@33

Obviously, you've never played Half-Life 2.

@24 2009 or higher

OMFG ITS APRIL FIRST NEXT WEEK YOU TARDS!! are you really turning this into a serious debate?!?!

If anyone here knows what this stuff is all about, carbon dating is not reliable for the Shroud because of the 16th century fire that damaged the cloth. Hence, any dating method would be erroneous.

As to who this person is, we may never accurately know, but I can definitely say that the Leonardo da Vinci angle is the stupidest theory regarding the Shroud.

The Jacques de Molay theory is infinitely more plausible.

Which shroud of Turin? There's like a dozen of those things floating around.

The real face of christ?

Historychannel shoul know that that could not have been the cloth that jesus was wrapped in, the carbon dating tells its over 1000 years to "young".

In addition to the uncertainty over its age, isn't the image itself totally fake?: Naive medieval 2d drawing of a face, rather than the totally distorted print you would actually get?

if it's soaked with his blood then cant we clone him from dna? we could have an army of jesusususus, so much cooler than jango fett, plus palpatine is the pope so theres that

also when you see a face in an image or a cheeto it's called pareidolia, just in case anyone was interested

@44 ...mmm..you have a point there. LOL! the pope, I never doubted for a second he was Sith lord...

Tenso!

I really do not understand what they mean when they say they "lifted" the blood and "isolated it." That's pretty meaningless. Then they got his face out of the blood (which has a thousanth of a chance of being actually his) and would not still contain viable DNA after two thousand years . . . I call shenanigans.

OMFG Bin Laden!

To quote DS9:

It's a FAAAKE!!

The Shroud's age is questionable at best.

Put water based paint on your face. press a cloth to it. remove the cloth, look at how distorted the image is. your face is twice as wide.

The shroud is a FAKE. its an Image made with a pinhole camera. Carbon dating proved it, but the Catholic church couldn't stand to hear the truth. And they couldn't stand to loose all the money they charge for admission to the relic exhibits.

Use your brains people...

This is ridiculous..and ITS FAKE!!

Ohhhhh... the jewish owned History channel put a hook nose on JESUS to further the LIE that JESUS was a jew, anybody that knows history or religion knows JESUS was not a modern jew, the bible states jews are of the synagogue of satan,thats the TRUTH, KABALLAH/TALMUD/TORAH=WITCHCRAFT/SATANISM.

@52 Hell yea

Jesus was not a Jew ... Jews exist.

@29 - Wow... that is so stupid I don't even know where to begin. Sounds to me like you already know it's a bunch of bullshit.

@Jew - Jesus was a Jewish Carpenter... key word: Jewish.

@49 DS9 FTW!!

Jesus never existed.

Tune in next week when Billions of people get pissed as The History Channel reveals that Buddha was the spittin' image of Chris Farley as Motivational Speaker, Matt Foley who lived in a van dowN BY THE RIVERR!!

The history channel is already producing an hour's worth of filler just to show this at the end... can't wait. Loves me some JesusTV

I thought we already knew what Leonardo Da Vinci looked like...interesting.

If you don't understand the above, Leonardo Da Vinci kept extremely precise measurements of his facial structure. Why? Becauses he's f*cking Leonardo Da Vinci, greatest prankster to ever have lived. Well, Lillian Schwartz compared the Shroud's facial proportions to that of Leonardo's which he mapped. Wouldn't you know? They match. Same goes for the Mona Lisa (which was most likely made using himself as a model). More evidence points to a detailed fake made via camera obscura than Jesus' image burned or bleed onto some old cloth.

I bet good ole' Leonardo is laughing his ass off right now, where ever he may be.

What I don't get is if they used the blood from the shroud, used the DNA from the blood and reconstructed this... Why isn't Jesus shown to have darker skin?
Jesus wasn't White. He was from an Eastern country, born to an Eastern woman... Unless we all believe that God and Mary and everyone else in Biblical times were white, which is a crock, then no. Just no.
Jesus wasn't even real.

RAPTOR JESUS WENT EXTINCT FOR YOUR SINS. Not this impostor with small teeth!