Italian police 'reveal' what Jesus looked like as a young boy

Original Quill wrote:Meh...it's an old mug shot.

Nemesis wrote:

Original Quill wrote:Meh...it's an old mug shot.

What really stands out here more than anything to me here seeing the pictures they created for Jesus being younger, with the claim the picture found in the shroud is claimed by Christians to be Jesus? Is does that picture remind you more of European looking facial features or more Semitic looking facial features? Notice also how they darken their hair and eyes to look more Semitic the more back in time the pictures go, yet the facial features look to me more European.
What do you think?

Original Quill wrote:

Nemesis wrote:

What really stands out here more than anything to me here seeing the pictures they created for Jesus being younger, with the claim the picture found in the shroud is claimed by Christians to be Jesus? Is does that picture remind you more of European looking facial features or more Semitic looking facial features? Notice also how they darken their hair and eyes to look more Semitic the more back in time the pictures go, yet the facial features look to me more European.
What do you think?

Absolutely.  These kinds of things have a built in bias toward ethnocentrism.  Forensic artistry is therefore suspect as evidence in a court of law.

And yes, people are all to accepting of the shroud.  The question of identity aside, what process created it?  It sounds like one of the magic tricks of the old man in the sky.

nicko wrote:Quill, please stop using such long words such as "ethnocentrism" I keep having to get up and fetch my Dictionary,  thank you.

nicko wrote:Quill, if I have to leave the subject I am reading on my laptop to check something else on my laptop I can never get back to what I was doing. [ It's my age you know]