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Scientists categorically do not reject evidence of God's existence. If they did, all scientists would be atheists, and that is patently not true. This statement, though, points out a very common fallacy about science and faith. You see, science is not about collecting evidence. That's the provinence of courts of law and public opinion. A court collects evidence supporting one argument or the other, and someone in a position of authority, for instance a jury, makes a judgment. Science doesn't work this way, which is why scientists rarely agree on anything when they get together.

Science is all about repeatable experiments. There are lots of theories, but a theory is only scientific if you can make a repeatable experiment to prove it false. If you conduct an experiment and it proves your theory false, you have to re-write your theory. If enough people conduct your experiment and get the same results of success, then scientists start to treat that theory with respect.

But you see that theories are always theories. Newton's "laws of motion" were really good theories that stood the test of time for ages. Well, until Einstein came along and showed us through experiments that those laws were flawed. Oops. Time to re-write the law.

Now, what this has to do with God is that the "theory" of God's existence really doesn't have any great repeatable experiments to either prove or disprove it. In fact, no one has ever been able to posit a repeatable experiment about God. That's because God is all about miracles, which is the opposite of a repeatable experiment. God is supernatural, which is the opposite of observable evidence that can be measured and weighed.

Let's contrast this with the theory of evolution. Evolution, as Darwin stated it and thought it was supposed to be, is as dead as dodos and coelocanths. Except that coelocanths aren't extinct after all. You see, when people discovered evidence that contradicted Darwin, they re-write the theory. There is no single evolutionary theory. There are many theories concerning evolution, and they are all debated hotly. Just as theories about quantum mechanics, light, gravitation or any other aspect of science. What gets printed in the books is the latest concensus of the latest evidence.

There is a lot of evidence that God exists. More, even, than any other conceivable explanation for our existence. But, that's irrelevant to science, just as it is irrelevant to our faith. As Saint Paul tells us, "Now faith is the substance of things

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