Reply #17: This assumes that God is detectable in our physical universe... [View All]

[Dob Bole]

meaning that he absolutely can't exist outside of it, or at the indeterminate quantum level of our own universe. For the ancients who believed that the Sun was a god, they are easily disproven. For Eastern religionists, who believed that the universe is eternal, Hubble's discovery of the Big Bang proved that the universe indeed had an origin. And for Deism, popular with the founding fathers... it was killed by Darwin's theory of evolution.

Western monotheistic religions, on the other hand, can't be disproven by science (Call it "you can't disprove a negative," or whatever you want, but it's true) because they have always maintained that the universe had a beginning, that God can't be detected in the physical universe, and that he manifests himself when he wants to.