Using scientific ways to test whether god exist or not on believer. Feasible?

Question

I personally think it can be done by the following experiment.

Hypothesis:
If religious people believe in god A, then he has faith in god A. I infer if I remove the person memory which located at hippocampus, I can make him to be agnostic. My hypothesis is that our human mind controls the person thinking such as imagination, and if faith or belief is part of imagination, then if I remove the person memory, the person will become a non-religions person after the surgery due to lacking the ability to imagine. He will become a new person. In contrast, if there is really a god inside him, he will still be a believer of god A after the surgery.
To test it, we need a believer volunteer and a control volunteer.
Materials
A believer: I will pick one who is religious representative such as pope.
A agnostic: I will be volunteer.
A surgical microscope to find the target of memory region like hippocampus tissue.
A team of famous brain surgeons from John Hopkin or Mayo Clinic.

To Andrea
If you don't believe in God, why are you concerned with testing if God exists or not?
Very simple, it is for education purpose.
To educate people who are superstition and ignorant.

Answer 1

interesting approach , but check this out it has scientific proof

and if you believe , spread the word
http://www.godisimaginary.com/index.htm

Answer 2

Your test won't prove God's existence, unfortunately, even if you were to succeed. You seem to be testing the power of imagination and whether imagination controls belief. Your test, if successful will prove that if you remove the imagination you will remove the ability to believe, thus eliminating the ability to believe in God.

I don't completely see the link between removing the memory and therefore removing the ability to believe (therefore making the person agnostic).

Also, there is a problem with the statement, "If there is really a god inside him". There are probably a lot of things inside of us that we are not aware of. Someone could shove a penny down your throat in your sleep. Just because you don't know that the penny is inside of you, doesn't mean that the penny doesn't exist. And if you forgot that the penny was there, it would still exist. Even if you couldn't imagine that there was a penny inside of you, it would still be there. So, if God does exist inside of someone, not knowing won't prove anything.

And to exist inside of someone seems to imply a physical presence. You can just cut the person up and look, if that's the case.

To define God as something that exists inside you:
Before you can seek to find out if God exists or not, you have to define God. And if you mean that God exists only as a belief, and that the belief only exists when a person believes it, then that's a working definition of God that most people do not share. Even if you prove this idea, you won't sell anyone on the idea that God, as they believe God to be, does not exist.

It is difficult to prove a negative.
Nice try, but you have to tighten your theory up a lot.

My question to you is this:
If you don't believe in God, why are you concerned with testing if God exists or not? I don't believe in gnomes in my closet, and I'm not testing for them either.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSE:
Before you educate ignorant or superstitious people, it's best to understand WHY they hold ignorant and superstitious beliefs, to know what you're up against. The analogy would be Dumbo's Feather, from the Disney cartoon movie Dumbo, the flying elephant.

Dumbo was an elephant with the ability to fly, but he could not believe that since it is absurd. So friends gave him a feather, and told him it was a magic feather. Then he believed he could fly, and fly he did. He needed something to believe in. You can call it ignorant or superstitious, but HIS mind needed to believe in something in order for him to function in a way that otherwise confused or scared him.

The philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (and also, to an extent, Freud) believed that people believe in God to avoid feeling all alone in the world and thus "forlorn". He said, without religion, people would have to accept that they are all alone in the world; that things don't happen for a reason, or at all unless people make them happen; and that when people are alone and in trouble, there is no strong, loving, almighty entity to turn to for superhuman help.

If you take the belief in God away (which you cannot), it will be replaced immediately by something else because you're not eliminating the problem. The problem is one of NEED. Superstition doesn't spring from nothing. It is a response. If a belief in God is a response to a fear, and if this type of human fear has existed for thousands of years, no one can end the belief without eliminating the fear that makes people hold it.

Think about it: Believing in something that no one can even see is an EXTREME belief. People must have a great reason to believe something like that.

And hey, the reason just may be because it's TRUE.

Answer 3

That is a very interesting hypothesis. However, the results are quite trivial. To show that belief in god can be altered by manipulating our biological and cognitive faculties, is not to show much at all. The greater project that is impossible using science is to show that "God", in the metaphysical sense, does not exist "out there". Your hypothesis can be parelled to a situation where an agent says she sees god. Then one might hypothesize that if her eyes were removed then wouldn't see god. True, but the potential reality of a god independent of human cognition is not affected.

Perhaps i am misrepresenting your hypthesis. If so, please help me understand it better.

Answer 4

This wouldn't prove anything, the existence one way or the other wouldn't be found witin a human brain, assuming that the supernatual being or entity is independent of the human brain. Science can prove that the brain came up with the idea of gods and goddesses, but under your test, it wouldn't prove god's existence.