Ponderance.

How can God exist everywhere all at once and somehow be completely unobservable?

If you assign no attributes to God, then how can he exist? If he has no shape, no form, no mass, no anything, how can he exist? And if you do define attributes and those attributes are completely unobservable, how can he exist?

Everything that exists by definition is observable in some way.

If God exists, but only outside this universe, how can he affect this universe? Can something outside of a universe affect what is in it? How can it effect what is in the universe without being in it? How can it affect that universe without being manifest in that universe? If a universe is defined (in part) as being ruled by a specific set of physical laws or rules, how can something exist within that universe that does not or cannot adhere to those rules? Or how can something not in that universe affect anything within that universe while failing to adhere to those rules? Wouldn’t a failure to adhere those rules mean one of two things: the rules are changed or the rules are meaningless? If the rules have changed, then that would mean said entity would be adhering to the new rules (which means it cannot exist outside all rules; there is some set of rules it must obey). If the rules are meaningless, then, essentially, there are no rules. And if there are no rules, then there is no observable behavior that can be predicted, and therefore there is no scientific method.

Given the laws of physics as we know them, a supernatural being, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent, cannot exist. Cannot.

If such a being exists, then every known law of physics would have to modified — and therefore render all of scientific knowledge we’ve accumulated so far useless. Which means we wouldn’t be able to fight disease the way we do, create networks of computers (or computers themselves) the way we do, or even develop and use internal combustion engines.

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