Reality Check: Exposing Specious Anti-Religious Arguments

"GOD HAS BEEN PROVEN NOT TO EXIST BY SCIENCE."

Wrong. No such widely accepted theory was ever proposed, and for good reason.

Science is a methodical system based on observations made in controlled experiments, testing falsifiable hypotheses. A divinity that created the universe or a theoretical "multiverse" would effectively exist outside it, at least beyond current scientific abilities to observe this. It is therefore currently impossible for scientific observations to pass judgment on God's existence.

Some atheists would conclude this means God does not exist, that science has somehow demonstrated divinity's nonexistence by being unable to observe it. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence—there are many things scientists have conjectured and hypothesized the existence of without having the means to observe or demonstrate them at the time.

Some atheists also claim that science considers items such as God to be non-existent "by default." Pessimism is not the prime motivator of scientific progress—individuals in science may have pessimistic or optimistic views on one matter or another, but the method of science itself cannot predict with absolute certainty or pass final judgment on something it has yet to test or observe.

The whole reason science exists is because humans are not omniscient—and our relative scope of observed and demonstrated knowledge is extremely small.

The scientific method therefore has not proven atheism true—at this point, it is still ”agnostic" in nature, leaving individual scientists to regard God's existence as a matter of faith or denial.

"Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe ... Consequently Agnosticism puts aside not only the greater part of popular theology, but also the greater part of anti-theology."
- Oxford University Professor Alister McGrath, from his lecture "Has Science Eliminated God? Richard Dawkins and the Meaning of Life"