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Originally Posted by SciFi Chick
beskeptical - My understanding of the god question is that you have to be outside of a system in order to test it, and there's no way to get outside the universe - and that is presumably where the god/gods/goddess/goddesses reside if he/she/they/it in fact created matter.
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I know that is the standard explanation. For other universes and before the BB it is currently true. But we have scientific studies of many things we cannot measure directly. That doesn't mean we can't ask a scientific question about those things through indirect means. For religion, can you say there is no Pele, the volcano goddess of Hawaii? Of course you can. The idea you can never prove it one way or the other, to me, is just a rhetorical way of dancing around a sticky subject. With the correct choice of criteria, we can test the 'theory' of a god just as we can test the theory of quantum mechanics.