Dr. Kelly Kearse provides a unique perspective on the Shroud’s bloodstain images. Kelly holds a BS and MS in Biology and a Ph.D. in Immunology. Following completion of postdoctoral he worked at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Biochemistry and the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health in Immunology and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at East Carolina University School of Medicine. He has authored over forty peer-reviewed research articles in the fields of cell biology and immunology in such journals as the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of Biological Chemistry, and the Journal of Experimental Medicine. He has authored multiple academic papers on the Shroud’s blood images (some of which are included in the sources section below). Kelly is also a member of STERA, Inc.’s Board of Directors.
In his own words, Kelly says, “I am neither an authenticist nor a skeptic, but believe I could contribute a unique viewpoint to questions related to the bloodstains on the Shroud. I consider myself a Christian who happens to be a scientist and a scientist who happens to be a Christian. My own personal belief concerning the authenticity of the Shroud is I simply do not know”.
What conclusions can we glean from the Shroud’s bloodstains; is it real blood? What are their features and properties? What significance do they have in terms of natural image formation mechanisms and its possible link to the historical Jesus? All this and more is answered by this honoured guest.
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Recommended Sources (for further study):
a) Kelly Kearse has provided a full list of his own recommended academic articles and sources;
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b) Kelly Kearse presented a paper and presentation on the Blood at the 2014 St. Louis Conference:
See the paper here = [ Ссылка ] . The PowerPoint presentation (118 slides) = [ Ссылка ] . Also, a short 30 min YouTube video of the presentation can be seen here = [ Ссылка ] .
c) Other Sources Referenced:
Here is the 38 page paper by pro-Shroud proponents Mark Antonacci and Arthur Lind, it details their supernatural hypothesis to explain the formation or rather transference of the Shroud’s bloodstain images from Jesus’ body to the Shroud during the Resurrection and details a series of scientific experimental research in Part 2 (starts on p.15 of the article) they did to test and falsify natural theories. See here = [ Ссылка ] .
Also see the skeptical Blood Pattern Analysis (BPA) experimental research that was done in 2018 and supposedly “proved” the Shroud’s bloodstains are an artistic fake here = [ Ссылка ](concessione%20di%20Matteo%20Borrini)
Counter (Pro-Shroud) sources responding to the flawed approach of the new BPA results = [ Ссылка ] (4 pages), Mark Antonacci’s counter article (5 pages) here = [ Ссылка ] and/or,
2 short 10 min YouTube videos on it here = [ Ссылка ] (Part 1 video) and Part 2 here = [ Ссылка ] .
Former Pro-Shroud expert and guest Bob Rucker has written a counter to the BPA experiments here = [ Ссылка ] (25 pages). Or if the link doesn’t work see attachment here = ROB RUCKER- Evaluation-of-A-BPA-Approach-to-the-Shroud-of-Turin–Rev-0- BLOOD FAKE BY LGUIGI GARLASCHELLI
The scientific peer-reviewed papers by Drs. Heller and Adler proving there is real blood on the Shroud here = [ Ссылка ] and [ Ссылка ] .
