rickthestick2 said:
Actually that would be impossible. Assuming God is God (to logically disprove something one would have to assume that this "something" is true) then Science is the study, understanding, and experimentation of the Natural Laws of the Universe and God's creative omnipotence. Basically this means that Science can only explain what God has created and how these created things function. Science cannot disprove God and i don't understand how some people think it can.
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Ok you are being a bit anal with your precision here. The OP merely stated that God, defined as an omnipotent being that is capable of some physically impossible tasks such as knowing everything about the universe, including people's thoughts and wishes, etc, is largely a God of the gaps. Ie that which one does not understand get's attributed to a creator because it is natural to make that assumption given the way people think and how they interact with the world and create things.
Science can show that this type of god is so unlikely to exist by uncovering explainations for more and more of the mysteries that were once thought of as "proof" for god becuase they were thought to be unexplainable otherwise.
Your post has no logical relevance to it at all really. You cannot disprove the existence of unicorns 100% or any other creature of fantasy. There is no evidence that they ever existed, yet that could just mean we missed something somewhere. So what? The lack of evidence against is not evidence for, and in the case of god, there is no evidence for its existence, and a great deal of evidence showing that the claims of all religions are either scientifically invalid. More importantly, social and biological sciences have given us a lot of evidence that leads us to conclude that religion is a natural phenomenon. Or in short, religion is a product of man and anything that comes out of it certainly is not a proof of god.
Even if God is defined as the cause for the existence of the universe and simply left at that, ie no intervention, no sacrificing himself to himself or any of that, then it is possible that there will be a theory that explains this too. Neil Turok ( not to be confused with the dinisaur hunter) just gave a talk at my school and outlined a series of experiments that could find evidence to test his theory about the "creation" of the universe. It's just a neat idea and someday it may be possible to model the creation of our universe and test it with astronomical observations. I guess though the "logic" would then be that even with strong evidence for something, you still can't prove it 100%, therefore there is a god. Or God created the Multiverse and created the mechanisms in it whch led to the creation of our universe and to the creation of the earth and then created man and decide to eavesdrop on everyone's thoughts for the last few millions of years ( 6000 if you are a "true" christian) Am I correct in this assumption?
