Quote:Our understanding of the laws of nature have changed over time. We went from the Greek notion of the four elements to the periodic table, from aether to atoms, and so on and so forth.
You refer to superstition being replaced with scientific ideas. Today, not many people believe in aether, yet people still believe in gods.
Quote:Similarly, a previous conception of God was proved to be false in some way. That doesn't mean you can't verify God's existence (although modern science is based on falsification, not verification), it just means you're verifying that lots of different conceptions of god are false.
I explained later in my original post why gods' existence can never be verified or falsified. Falsifying a supernatural idea is impossible.
Quote:Maybe eventually they'll all be shown to be false?
Not until every idea imaginable, where the god-of-the-gaps can hide, has been exhausted. This will never happen.
