[ WP ] A religious scientist publishes the results of his latest experiments and becomes an atheist . His results are peer reviewed and his experiments recreated successfully . The results ? No higher powers , such as god , exist .

It is amazing what people will do when their convictions are tested. When everything that they believe in is critiqued and ridiculed. When life itself seems to join into your mockery, something in you will question what before was concrete. Such was the fate of Howard and his peers. Well, now they have their answers, and the world is thrown into doubt. 
 
 `` Who are we to disagree with their findings? Who are we to question that which science has now proved to them?'' Some would claim. When their sole purpose was to prove the existence of the intangible, it is difficult to argue against this view. Especially at the time and effort and resolve spent in devising such a test. 
 
 And yet still, the prospect of suicide remains abhorrent.
