Can Science Prove the Existence of God?

Prove it: The choice to believe or not to believe

There are many arguments for and against the existence of God. Use this brief scenario as a simplified, scientific proof for the existence of God.

"I heard a bird singing the most wonderful song today; it sang with a marvelous trill."

"Prove it."

"I actually thought that I had imagined it at first, so I stood in the open doorway and waited. Suddenly, I heard the sound again."

"Prove it to me."

"I made a kissing sound and the bird sang again, for the third time."

"But, you cannot prove it."

"I finally spotted the tiny bird. It was perched on an apple tree branch, just above the fence, behind my patio deck. I watched and listened. The bird faced me. It was too far away for me to be able to identify the species, but it certainly had a beautiful song. I have never heard that kind of a trill before, when a bird sang. I was thrilled because it kept on singing."

"Then, prove it."

There is the old adage, "I came, I saw, I conquered."

"Prove it," unbelief insisted then, even while the person who had said that, spoke the truth. 

The bird did just exactly as stated, but there was no way to prove it either.

Some things have to be taken in faith. 

Faith demands belief; lack of faith always demands proof.

Imagine Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, having just been created by God; they knew absolutely nothing. Right?

Tabula rasa, one might argue. They started off with a clean slate. They  knew nothing?

Or did they? Maybe they knew everything that God knew? They knew God and the reality that He did exist to them and for them, at that time. Then, came the fall.

But the argument for unbelief states, "Prove it."

Prove what? The existence of God? The fact that He created Adam and Eve? The reality that they actually had minds and knowledge or at the very least, that they had the ability to acquire knowledge?

Does God exist? 

Can science or anyone prove that He does not exist?

The trill of one tiny bird convinces me that God does exist, but then, I speak from a position of scientific belief. It always helps, having heard the sound of the trill!

Did that little bird that I heard exist or the conqueror? 

I say yes, to both. How about to the story of Adam and Eve? I believe that too. And the existence of God? Yes!

Belief comes about when someone chooses to believe. Had God not given human beings the freedom of choice, including the ability to make a choice between belief and non-belief, humankind would not have been created free.

For science, that option of belief versus unbelief is still open, too. Could science deny the existence of a bird with a trill? Probably not.