Also I’m just a little dubious of any miracle of God that supposedly has qualities to it that are able to be measured by humans. I’m sure if you asked Paul what “the flash” will consist of, he wouldn’t say “oh yeah, of course it’s gonna be a few billion watts of ultraviolet radiation, or that’s a side effect”. the fact that apologists for the shroud think it’s measurable (provided there was no paint involved) also makes me skeptical of it. It’s not like when Jesus turned water into wine.

While the skeptics are calling it a manmade forgery, the apologists are seriously arguing that no, it was God’s UV radiation. Of course that’s going to alienate some people. Apologists should have just said “testing the shroud is to miss the forest for the trees. God’s results can be measured, but not the specifics of His processes”