Does Science Disprove God?
Natural phenomena can be explained without resort to God. Human beings once could not imagine how lots of things happened, but we -- well, not me personally -- have made a lot of progress explaining things in the last few hundred years. That in itself should inform anyone who is tempted to say, "I can't imagine how X happens naturally, so God must be how." That's a colossal failure of the imagination in light of what science has delivered. But do scientific explanations add up to a proof that God does not exist? You might think so, but let's take another look. I draw here on George H. Smith's highly recommended Why Atheism? Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), the great Catholic philosopher, anticipating William of Occam (1285-1347) of razor fame, wrote: What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all things can be reduc...