Why an Atheist Thinks the Shroud of Turin is the Real Deal

George Ellis

It was with great anticipation that I opened this book, searching for details of the scientific experiment that proved that God does not exist. What was the experi-mental procedure? . . .

What the book in fact contains is a mélange of homes-pun philosophy, amateur biblical interpretation and a smattering of scientific data served up under the pre-tence of being a proof. All this despite the fact that Immanuel Kant and David Hume emphasized two cen-turies ago that attempts to conclusively prove either the existence or non-existence of God by such reasoning could not work. While scientific understanding has in-creased vastly since then, the scientific method has not changed; it has the same strengths and weaknesses, and the same limited domain of application. The author is thus committing a category error in trying to use scientific proof in areas where it simply does not apply.