Disproving the Bible

[Jenny A]

What would evidence of God look like to a scientist?

Be handy if he'd just introduce himself a couple times a year and put on a demonstration.

Seriously, I can think of a number of things that would be very suggestive of a god, but which haven't happened:

Suppose god revealed himself to everyone and we all got the same message as opposed to what happens now which is that god reveals himself to many (but not all) and they disagree violently over what he said and fight wars and burn people to death over the discrepancies in the messages.

Suppose god made clear concise unambiguous prophecies that happened every time just as prophesied.

Suppose miracles didn't go into decline with the rise of science.

Suppose god gave us accurate information about the world that we don't already know which we could confirm empirically.

What we have now is a god carefully defined to avoid science: if a prayer works, it's because god did it; if a prayer doesn't work it's because god didn't want to.