[pw201]

> But even if science proposes God as the hypothesis at step 3, the next problem comes at step 4: how are you going to test it? "Um, God, could you do that again? And, um, sign it this time?" You can't run the experiment. I don't see how you could run the experiment even in principle.

Then you should check your Bible ;-) because 1 Kings 18 describes just such an experiment. There's always a Less Wrong article, and this one's is https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fAuWLS7RKWD2npBFR/religion-s...

There have also been things like experiments on the efficacy of healing prayers whose negative results lend credence to the idea that a god who answers prayers does not exist. https://www.noctua.org.uk/blog/2010/07/08/healing-prayer-exp... discusses that (the links to the Premier Radio forums are dead, alas).

> even if we can't see it with science, we might see it with history. We might find historical record of God doing something.

"It is strange, a judicious reader is apt to say, upon the perusal of these wonderful historians, that such prodigious events never happen in our days. But it is nothing strange, I hope, that men should lie in all ages."