Define God

[steve_bank]

Buh buh but god is everywhere, and knows all things after all he created it

If god wanted to be detected by scientific instruments then god would be detected.

After all god spoke to Moses from a burning bush and waked with Abraham.


Uhhh ... god works in mysterious ways beyond our understanding, right?

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Christianity is not in direct opposition to science.

Naw, just some of the people that practice it.

Perhaps you're looking at it wrong, and looking in the wrong place.

Could be, where did you detect god?

Depending on whether or not the entire Bible is taken literally it's in direct opposition to science. Or depending on whether or not someone believes prayer can work to influence the outcome of events (it doesn't). Or if someone believes "conversion therapy" works. Etc.

 

[Swammerdami]

The majority of the time, it's the theists who are way more hostile and pretentious than the atheists.

You write "the theists" and "the atheists" as though these were homogeneous groups. I think they are not.

I'm an atheist (with a small 'a') myself, but I daresay many or most of The™ Atheists here are unusually hostile and pretentious.

Looking at thread title, I wonder if any definitions of God (or god) have been submitted for review. I assume we've improved on the peculiar "supreme or ultimate reality" we see in a popular dictionary:

god
noun
ˈgäd also ˈgȯd
plural gods

1 God : the supreme or ultimate reality: such as
a: the being perfect in power, wisdom, and goodness who is worshipped (as in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism) as creator and ruler of the universe
Throughout the patristic and medieval periods, Christian theologians taught that God created the universe …—
Jame Schaefer
… the Supreme Being or God, the personal form of the Ultimate Reality, is conceived by Hindus as having various aspects.—
Sunita Pant Bansal
b Christian Science : the incorporeal divine Principle ruling over all as eternal Spirit : infinite Mind

2 or less commonly God : a being or object that is worshipped as having more than natural attributes and powers
specifically : one controlling a particular aspect or part of reality
Greek gods of love and war

3 : a person or thing of supreme value
had photos of baseball's gods pinned to his bedroom wall

4 : a powerful ruler
Hollywood gods that control our movies' fates

 

[GenesisNemesis]

The majority of the time, it's the theists who are way more hostile and pretentious than the atheists.

You write "the theists" and "the atheists" as though these were homogeneous groups. I think they are not.

I specifically said the "majority" of the time, implying an undetermined number of exceptions, so no, not really.