Failure condition for god

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

But if there are no failure conditions, then you can show God exists whether he actually does, or not. Hopefully anyone who cares about truth can see the problem with that.

Well, no, not so much.

You're implying that truth requires falsifiability.

Falsifiability is a helpful concept which strengthens a position and IMO is necessary for evidence to count as scientific evidence.

But, it isn't necessary for truth.

One can likewise say that there's no failure condition for atheism. No matter what you observe, you can explain it in some other fashion than god. You know, magic is indistinguishable from sufficiently advanced technology...The Matrix...

Neither theism nor atheism has a failure condition. Yet, between theism (broadly considered) and atheism, it seems that one of them has to be true.

But the test being considered isn't whether theism or atheism is true, but whether God exists.  If God does not exist, then theism (the belief that God exists) can still be true, contrariwise for atheism.

Boru