Interesting

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[fishlivejournal]

It would be surprising if science did. Science works on the assumption that the universe works on the same basic rules, anywhere in time or space; something that makes perfect sense to a monotheist (but is counterintuitive for a pantheist, which may be why science didn't really take off before monotheism waxed strong). The current quest for a grand unifying theory presumes this, but really, if the universe began by chance, why would this be the case? Different aspects of the universe could operate in wildly varying ways, begun by different chaotic effects. If science ever did 'disprove the existence of God' science as a concept would not survive the event; the disporve would prove science false.

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I cannot see the flaw in that, but it seems to me a bit facile, somehow. It has something of the "heads I win, tails you lose" kind of logic.

[inverarity]

That only makes sense if you equate "God" with "a consistent model of the universe

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That only makes sense if you equate "God" with "a consistent model of the universe."
Ah, but Christians and Jews all do. (So do Zoroastrians, but that is mostly of merely historical relevance.) In fact, in Hebrew the word "truth" has the same root as "firmness, unshakeability", so that God being the God of Truth also means that He is the God of everything that lasts, that is unshaken, that is undeniable. That was what the Pope criticized in Muslim thought in his famous Regensburg speech, namely the belief that God is not bound by logic. We believe He is, or rather, we believe that His being is one with logic.

The notion that science is out to "disprove" God is a peculiar bugaboo some people have.
Like Richard Dawkins.