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Websites on the Shroud of Turin

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much controversy and discussion. Before the advent of the World Wide Web, many authors rushed articles and books into print both supporting and debunking the idea of the Shroud as  the cloth that wrapped Jesus upon his death. Now that there is cyberspace, e-researchers have jumped into the breach to foment their  ideas on line to a worldwide audience of millions. The result of this effort has been development of many websites that explore this particular topic. This paper will study two  web sites that are devoted to study and analysis of the Shroud of Turin. Although both web sites are certainly complete in their research it is the Shroud of Turin  Website (http://www.shroud.com) that is the most comprehensive in dealing with this controversial topic. This is not to say, however, that the other  site we compare, the Council for Study of the Shroud of Turin (http://www.duke.edu/~adw2/shroud/) is poor. The Councils website (CSST) is more directed to those involved in academia, developed and maintained  as it is by Duke University in North Carolina. But the site is mainly focused on the research of Dr. Alan and Mrs. Mary Whanger. Dr. Whanger, who is Professor  Emeritus at Duke University Medical Center, is considered "skilled in photography and video," according to the CSST website. In 1981, this husband-and-wife couple decided to perform "exacting comparisons" between the  face of the man on the Shroud and faces of earlier icons. Through their research and efforts of polarization and image fading, the Whangers determined that the Shroud image itself  was an artistic one, used "extensively and accurately as the basis of artistic depictions of Jesus as early as the 3rd century, and consistently from the 6th century onward," the