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Title: Judgment Day for the Shroud of Turin by Walter C. McCrone ISBN: 1-57392-679-5 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $42.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Top scientist taeks on controvesial artifact
Comment: If the greatest microscopist of the modern age
tells you something is so, it takes a total fool to doubt him.
No one which any shread of scientific background would argue with his conclusions.
Plus didn't anyone stop tpo think that shourds wrap around a body and are not folded over it?
If you require proof to have faith then what you have isn't Faith at all.

Rating: 4
Summary: A man of character
Comment: If you want to know the objective truth about the shroud read this book. This man has spent his life analyzing authentic and forged documents. Even before the carbon tests he gave the same date. Those that slam his integrity as a scientist are the ones not being objective.

Rating: 2
Summary: McCrone not quite candid.
Comment: Since the publication of McCrone's book, a number of later books on the Shroud have thrown serious doubt on the Carbon-14 datings of the Shroud; so, his boasting of a victory over his fellow Shroud scientists is more than a bit ironic. The main problem with McCrone's thesis is that he seems to be the only scientist who has examined the Shroud microscopically and found detailed samples of paint on the Shroud fabric; all of the other scientists who fail to see thru their microscopes the evidence for sufficient paint fragments are, according to McCrone, either incompetent or dishonest; he even claims that only he himself had the right type of microscope to detect what no other scientist could see. This is amazing since there were several other scientists using microscopic devices. Further, McCrone utterly fails to answer 2 major problems pointed out to him : 1) He claims the image of Christ was painted on with a thin watercolor paint; yet, we know that, except for the blood areas on the Shroud, there is NO penetration of any liquid below the surface of any threads; he never answers this. 2) He claims a medieval artist painted the image with a "brush." Incredible, since there is no microscopic evidence of any DIRECTIONALITY of painting on the cloth--and that would be clearly evident. He doesn't answer this problem, either. Also, since the cloth is loaded with many details unseen to the naked eye (but only evident with special ultra-violet and enlarged photography)--the image is only fully clear when a negative photo of it is studied microscopically--McCrone cannot account for these hidden details in a cloth that existed centuries befor the invention of photography. Finally, the book is alarmingly dishonest: for example, in his brief bibliography, he entirely omits mention of Joseph Heller's book that demolishes McCrone's scandalous role in the Shroud investigation. This is a glaringly dishonest omission. McCrone cannot accept the Shroud as relating to Christ historically; in my opinion, it is from this basis that he achieves his unique analysis of the Shroud.