Question: does God exist?

Grant Kennedy answered on 16 Mar 2013:

To expand on Martin’s answer, science is ideas about how things happen, in particular, testing theories that explain something AND that make specific predictions about other things. So gravity is a (very good) theory that tells us why we don’t fall upwards from the Earth, but also predicts that if I throw a ball it will follow a very specific path through the air. That path can be calculated before I throw the ball, and then that prediction can be tested by watching the ball when I throw it. So far gravity has always been right (with Einstein’s extra bits where necessary).

The idea of God is different. He (or she, or they) supposedly made the world and sets what happens, but there is no “theory of God” that says what will happen in the future. So basically, we can’t scientifically test whether God exists, because there aren’t any predictions to test.

All that doesn’t mean there are no Gods, just that we can’t tell. Personally I don’t think so, but everyone is allowed to believe whatever they like!

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ps: there are of course predictions that the world will end every few years, but mostly these are made by people who, to be polite, get a little carried away with what they read so when they’re wrong I don’t think it’s a proof that God doesn’t exist.