The Shrout of Turin is one of the oldest and most fascinating mysteries in human history.

A single piece of linen, said to bear the markings of a crucified man,

is believed by millions to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ himself.

For centuries, skeptics and believers alike have debated its origin.

But what happens when nuclear science enters the equation?

Bob Rucker is a nuclear

engineer with over 40 years of experience in nuclear analysis, radiation transport, and reactor

design. And he's applying that same scientific precision to the Shroud of Torin to uncover how

this mysterious image was formed and whether it really could be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.

In fact, he's the only man

doing these specific tests. And he believes that his conclusions could potentially have life-altering

effects for believers and non-believers alike. This is Bob Rucker and the mystery of the

Shrout of Turin. The Shrout of Turin, many people have been fascinated by. I don't think many more fascinated than you. You spent over a decade into research, and you've taken a scientific approach to that, which I think is kind of interesting to people in the religious community. So, Bob, welcome to the show. And why have you dedicated so much your life to the shroud?

Well, it's interesting if I could give you a little bit of background,

how I became interested in it.

When I was young, you know, I don't know,

10 or 12, 12, 13 years old, I was delivering newspapers on Sunday morning.

I'd come home early before everyone else was up.

So I was flipping through the newspaper, and at that time, in the newspaper, was a paper magazine called Parade. And I was just flipping through that. And I found a little picture here,

maybe an inch and a quarter inch and a half high, just of the

face on the shroud of turn.

I never was not aware of it at all at that point.

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