Think Spot: Can Science Disprove God?

Have you heard that Science has proved there is no God?

Did you know that science is incapable of that?

Truth is Science can’t even disprove the existence of unicorns.
Science works using the method of induction. The induction method is basically finding things in the world and making generalized conclusions about them based on their observations. Scientists can only draw conclusion on what they find, not what they can’t.

Science is never capable of proving the non-existence of anything.

Can science prove there are no unicorns? All science can say is that Scientists have been looking for them for a long time and never found any. So they may conclude that no one is justified in thinking they exist.

Since science, by its very nature, is never capable of proving the non-existence of anything, one can never accurately claim that science has proven God doesn’t exist. That’s a misuse of the discipline. Such a claim would require omniscience.

One cannot know anything inductively with absolute certainty. The inductive method gives us knowledge that is only probably true. Science, therefore, cannot be certain about anything in an absolute sense. It can provide a high degree of confidence based on evidence that strongly justifies scientific conclusions, but its method never allows certainty.

If science doesn’t give us reason to believe in something, then no good reason exists.

Some take the position that if science doesn’t give us reason to believe in something, then no good reason exists. That’s simply the false assumption scientism. Don’t ever concede the idea that science is the only method available to learn things about the world.

How about love? No scientific test known to man could ever prove such a thing.

Science seems to give us true, or approximately true, information about the world, and it uses a technique that seems to be reliable, by and large. However, science is not the only means of giving us true information about the world; its methodology limits it significantly.

One thing science cannot do, even in principle, is disprove the existence of anything. So if you try to use science to disprove the existence of God, you’re using science illegitimately and this just makes science look bad.

……just stuff I’m learning..