Quote Originally Posted by SadisticNature View Post
Most notable of these is empiricism, namely the belief that you can identify all the relevant conditions to an experiment and if you change an irrelevant variable (typically time or location), you can conduct the same experiment with the same results. This presupposes a divine entity has no control over the outcome of your experiments so in a certain sense you have axiomatized away god at least in the sense of a divine entity that intervenes in the world.
But this is an absolute necessity in any experiment or study of science. If you presuppose that an entity (ANY entity) can control or alter the outcome of your experiment, what's the point of doing it? The result is meaningless. You can never be sure of any outcome. It's only by assuming that there is NO such entity that the experiment has any meaning.