Can we test God using the scientific method?

Question

Is it possible to use science, a wonderful tool for measuring data in our natural world, as a means of testing things in the spiritual world? Furthermore can we actually expect to answer the question of is there a God in a laboratory?

Answer 1

Only if you don't see a difference in alchemy and chemistry.

Answer 2

Yes, it is possible to use the method. However, keep in mind that there is a notable difference between what is Spiritual, and what is Natural. Therefore it takes different tools to measure it.

As an example, we detect light by it's effect on darkness.

We detect wind by the way it changes the position of an anemometer (or other physical things).

So scientifically, we can detect God (a Spirit) by His effect on Human Spirit. Now how would you measure that? I ask to inspire your thinking...what tools could be used to measure spirituality, and whether or not it changes. Then follow that evidence to the causality of the change.

I believe if you start with the hypothesis that there is spirit, and define what can be known of it, then you can find a way to detect changes in it, and therefore determine that there is a cause that is measurable by its effect.

Be quite aware that the witnesses who have personally experienced spiritual change and therefore are now convinced that there is a spiritual realm...well, they go both ways. Those that are changed for "good," (you try and define it) and those that change for "bad" (define that too).

So I have given you basis and clues. If you sincerely want to know, then devise your toolset by which you can measure and prove.

You know, Galileo figured a few things out, and the Church suppressed him. But it turned out he was right about a few things.

So for the scientific method to be an honest test, one must approach it honestly with a presumption to prove.

Can you prove something does not exist, based on the lack of evidence?

But can you prove that something does exist by collecting and evaluating the evidence?

I hope you are successful in your quest for the truth, if that is what you seek.

Answer 3

If you’re looking to prove God's existence in a peachery dish I don’t think that you will find what you’re looking for, however, there are many, many scientific evidences that God does exist. First and foremost is creation. It is a proven fact that living things can not come from non-living things. Everything that is living has come from something else that is or was alive. Even scientists claim that life and not always existed. This is a huge fact that many people seem to skim over quickly. Think about it a little more and I think you would be surprised! Here are a couple of books for you to check out that might help you:

Why Christ? By Christian Fobian
A Skeptics Search for God by Ralph Muncaster

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

As many people know, way back when, we quite obviously did not have the technology or reasoning we do now. The theory for the creation of the "god" idea is that people were fearful of what happens after death and were constantly and desperately searching for an answer to things that happened that weren't of the norm (i.e. lightning and thunder and volcanoes and hurricanes and ect.). This leads to 1 suggestion that made vague sense and people followed it, the idea of an all-powerful being in the sky that created all. This idea stuck, being as no one had any more logical answer than this, so they stuck with it, and like stupid traditions we still do now, it still sticks. As technology and ability to reason grows (like with the ridding of monarchs that claim they have been given rights to control us by god himself) we are developing ways to prove otherwise. We do have the scientific theory for the creation of everything and can thank science for helping us know the way just about everything works but we are still working on things people think that the "lord almighty" has done and that is why it is. So for now, unless your an incredibly smart and successful scientist, it will be hard to prove this, hopefully this helped. Right now its basically a matter of faith over logic or visa versa. As for me, I chose logic over faith, a reasonable choice, and you are smart to look into it before blindly jumping into it.

Answer 5

Yes science can show Biblical truth
Only if it is exacting science and not THEORY
I AM SO SICK OF THEORY
The flood,,,,,look at the fossils in Yellow stone
Evolution,,,,,look carefully at the process used to verify the assumption, That is why it is called the theory of evolution.\
Universe,,,,,the Hubble has proven God is true as having created the Earth before all the universe, the Earth is the oldest planet in the universe and older than the sun.
Oh no, science already knows the truth and has already proven it,
But if they say it openly , then they will all lose their millions of dollars for research by the funding groups that oppress them so that they will only pay those who feed the multitudes more theories and secure to themselves more government grants

Answer 6

Its difficult to prove god because he doesn't do anything that we can attribute to him as the only possible cause. But there is plenty of instances when we would have thought that god should have intervened but did not.

But people say that god works in strange ways but they really mean random ways. The same number of "miracles" and non answered prayers would still be the same. Therefore, there is no god.

Answer 7

Logically, God qualifies as a floating abstraction, i.e. a concept that is disconnected from any observable presence or effect in the real world. As such, he/she/it is untestable until which time this status changes.

After several millennia of zilch, I'm not expecting much, personally.

Answer 8

You can test God in the labortatry of your mind and body! Try to explore book "Science of the Soul".

Answer 9

How can one measure the infinite with finite tools? One cannot fathom the infinity of God. Remember: "God is a circle whose center is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere."

Answer 10

No. God is a PERSON, not a vending machine. He will do as He likes, and I seriously doubt He will submit to the scientific method.

Answer 11

Which God?