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fr0d0, I've been meaning to ask you a question for a while.

How can you make the claim that we cannot, in time, prove or disprove God's existence through scientific means?

It seems like an argument from ignorance.

It's not an argument from ignorance at all. Science only covers the empirical realm; it can (and never will) have anything to say about the supernatural, given that the supernatural doesn't follow natural laws, and therefore cannot be reasonably tested or even observed.

What scientific experiment would prove or disprove God's existent anyway?

Sure it is. Science, at the present moment, cannot prove or disprove God, but what guarantee is that of any future developments or experiments? A hundred years ago, we did not understand DNA, but now we fully utilize it. The same for flight. Why not a more detailed explanation that can encompass and prove or disprove a creator? The sheer fact that fr0d0 says it cannot be disproven using scientific means is assigning properties to this entity. How can we know that one day these properties cannot be tested?

It seems like it's an argument that says "Because I can't see a way in which this will be possible, it will never be possible", which is an argument from ignorance.