Using scientific ways to test whether god exist or not on believer. Feasible?

Pasig, Philippines
August 9, 2008 10:41pm CST
I personally think it can be done by the following experiment. Hypothesis: If religious people believe in god A, then he has faith in god A. I infer if I remove the person memory which located at hippocampus, I can make him to be agnostic. My hypothesis is that our human mind controls the person thinking such as imagination, and if faith or belief is part of imagination,then if I remove the person memory, the person will become a non-religions person after the surgery due to lacking the ability to imagine. He will become a new person. In contrast, if there is really a god inside him, he will still be a believer of god A after the surgery. To test it, we need a believer volunteer and a control volunteer. Materials A believer: I will pick one who is religious representative such as pope. A agnostic: I will be volunteer. A surgical microscope to find the target of memory region like hippocampus tissue. A team of famous brain surgeons from John Hopkin or Mayo Clinic.
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Pose123
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• Canada
13 Aug 08
Hi bookworms, You have certainly come up with a unique idea, but I don't see many people getting excited about it. Most people are religious because they have been brainwashed from almost the day that they were born. Many drift away from the teachings, but the belief is still ingrained within them and quite a few will return to their original teachings or something like it. Someone recently suggested that it was very unfair, and should be considered a crime to teach children about religion. They have all this instilled in them when they are most impressionable and have no chance to do anything but accept it. He felt that it would only be fair to have those ideas imparted to a person after they became an adult and could make the choice for themselves. Granted that would be very difficult to do but would certainly give people a fairer choice. The danger that I see today is that some people who have gotten away from religion are not giving their children an moral teachings at all. It is like it was left to the churches for so long, that there is no one else out there. I know that this isn't true for all as many parents do an excellent job. It would be interesting to see how people would view religion if they had it explained to them for the first time as an adult. I'm sorry if I have really gotten away from your topic here, but proofing God scientifically is going to be difficult as it seems he prefers to avoid the test tube. Blessings.