Science is not evidence against the existence of God.

I look forward to a stimulation and enjoyable debate. Science seeks to understand and explain the universe. Science systematically observes, hypothesizes, experiments, analyzes, and eventually draws conclusions about how the world works. The science of today is built upon the understandings of yesterday, as we add to and revise theories and explanations to match our most current understandings of the universe. Some of the things we learn through science allows us to create, manipulate and make use of the world around us for our own benefit in new ways. Science is undeniably an integral part of human civilization and nobody should overlook or dismiss it. There is however something very important about science that some people don't seem to understand. In a nutshell one can basically say that science seeks to understand and explain the world around us. Understand and explain. One more time for those that didn't catch it yet. .. science seeks to understand and explain the world around us. Now this understanding is developed in many ways and on many levels; ranging from quantum physics, to neuroscience, to biology, to geology, to physics, to astronomy, to understanding the the very origins of the universe itself. There are many, many other disciplines and levels of reality that science seeks to understand but I'm sure you all know that. Getting back to my point, science seeks to understand as much as it can about how the universe works. Now there are several reasons why science doesn't really conflict with the idea of God. These are reasons that atheists won't like and may dismiss without a second thought. I ask you however to take a moment and really consider what I am about to say. The main reason why science isn't evidence against God is simple and has basically been mentioned already. Science seeks to understand and explain the world around us. I know, I have said it sooo many times already. Now let me explain exactly what it means. Understanding and KnowledgeUnderstanding is basically having knowledge of something, and at its core science is a quest for knowledge. All scientific theories, laws, and facts are knowledge. They are explanations of how something works. By understanding how something works we can make use of it. When scientific knowledge is applied to the world around us, it results in various kinds of advancement and changes in our reality. Science when not applied is nothing more than knowledge. This is where my point becomes important. Knowledge is never a cause in and of itself. It only becomes a cause of something tangible when it is applied. Science likewise is not a cause in and of itself, but when it is applied it allows us to change the world. Now you may be wondering how this relates to the matter of God. Allow me to briefly explain. Science explains the world around us based on our understandings. And so we immediately come upon a number of reasons why science isn't evidence against God. 1. Our understanding(and/or explanation) of something is independent of the thing understood. 2. Our understanding(and/or explanation) of something can be wrong or incomplete, or be based upon a wrong or incomplete understanding(and/or explanation) of something else.3. Our understanding(and/or explanation) can be limited by our relative relation, in time and space, to that which we seek to understand. 4. Our understanding(and/or explanation) of something can be limited by our beliefs, assumptions, preconceptions, bias, ignorance, technology, intelligence, knowledge e. t. cBasically there are many reasons why our understandings and explanations may not match the reality of a matter. In particular our explanations, interpretations and conclusions can be completely wrong. Science seeks to minimize this but at the end of the day reality does not conform to science. Science and RealityMy point is simple. Our understanding of how the world works, does not determine how the world works. And our understanding of reality does not dictate reality. Furthermore our explanations of how the world works are nothing more than explanations, and they alter nothing in and of themselves. Explanations are not causes but more akin to observations. Science seeks to understand and explain reality, and while the application of science allows us to alter reality. .. science does nothing in and of itself, it is simply explanations. This is particularly relevant with regards to God. Science may some day know whether or not God created the universe, but it will never ever change or alter the facts. Science has no bearing on whether or not God exists. .. because science explains reality, it does not dictate it. If God does exist, science and all the explanations in the world will not change the facts. And if God does not exist, religion and all the beliefs and faith in the world will not change the facts either. Science seeks to understand and explain reality. .. but remember one simple fact. Science is not reality! I leave it at this for today. This is just the beginning of my arguments, but I'm curious what my opponent will come up with.